"The Attack," from Olmsted's Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, 1841
About it
Whaleboats closing on a sperm whale in a heavy sea, the ship standing off in the distance: the chase as a young passenger on the whaler North America drew it in 1839-40, the year before Richard Holbrook shipped in the Hydaspe. Each boat carried six men, the mate or officer at the steering oar and the boatsteerer at the bow with the harpoon.
- Related to
- Richard Blackmer Holbrook
- Credit
- Drawn by F. A. Olmsted, lithographed by Endicott, New York, in Francis Allyn Olmsted, *Incidents of a Whaling Voyage* (New York: D. Appleton, 1841). Via the Internet Archive (incidentsofwhali00olmsrich); public domain; cropped and turned upright
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