Taking a Whale

by R. Weir

$100 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Harper’s Weekly, December 22, 1866. Single leaf 10 1/4 x 16” steel engraving with ads to verso, mounted; very good. § A leaf taken from the original Dec. 22 1866 issue, depicts a large whale being speared in a stormy sea. Item #108201

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