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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 January 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.01.04.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire ridiculing the first Nootka Convention in which Spain conceded England's right to maintain outposts in Nootka Sound and engage in whaling outside a "ten-league line" off the Northwest coast of North America. In a small row boat on the Pacific and facing the west coast of North American, Pitt stands fishing with a rod baited with a sack labelled "3 million genl. elc." Beside him in the boat is Henry Dundas holding another sack labelled "million gen. elec" and beside him in the back of the boat, a third sack also labelled "million gen elec." Selected points along the shore from the Sea of Kamtschatka and Bristol Bay (north) to New Mexico are identified with no attempt to convey a sense of scale: Nortons Sound, Alaska, Cooks River, Ps. William Sound, Spanish Land, Nootka or King Georges Sound, New Albion, California. Off the coast of Alaska are shown the islands Arako and Foxes Is. Whales surface above the water inside the buoys with flags reading "10 leagues." In the upper left is a galley "Convention." Pitt says "I fear Harry the fishing will never answer." Dundas replies, "Never mind tha Billy the gudgeons we have caught in England will pay for all."
- Alternative Title:
- Cheap way to catch whales
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: The hostile nations view with glad surprise, the frugal plans of minsters so wise, but they the censure of the world despise, sure from their faithfull commons of suplies [sic], convinced that man must fame immortal gain, Who first dare fish with millions in the Spanish Main., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Jany. 4, 1791, by H. Humphries, N. 18 Old Bond St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain, Great Britain., Great Britain, Spain., and North Pacific Ocean.
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign relations, Politics and government, Whaling, Fishing, Galleys (Ships), Maps, Ships, and Whales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The new South Sea fishery, or, A cheap way to catch whales [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971, illustrator
- Published / Created:
- [1930?]
- Call Number:
- 2023 Folio 19
- Container / Volume:
- 3
- Image Count:
- 56
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Set of 290 black-and-white prints of Rockwell Kent's illustrations and decorations for the 1930 Lakeside edition of Moby Dick. The prints are housed in 148 mats, with each mat holding one to four prints, and divided into three volumes that correspond to the published Lakeside edition. The mats for each volume are housed in a custom case with paper spine and cover labels featuring Kent's illustrations. Volume 1 contains mats 1-49 (95 prints) and the inventory of illustrations; volume 2 contains mats 50-94 (89 prints); and volume 3 contains mats 95-148 (106 prints).
- Alternative Title:
- Moby Dick
- Description:
- BEIN 2023 Folio 19: From the library of William S. Reese. Twenty-six sheets bear the Strathmore drawing board trademark stamp. Accompanied by manuscript inventory of illustrations in an unidentified hand (11 pages). Each mat is numbered in pencil with a number corresponding to this inventory. The final 9 illustrations (mats 145-148) likely do not appear in the published Lakeside edition. and Title devised by cataloger.
- Publisher:
- The Lakeside Press
- Subject (Name):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Subject (Topic):
- Whales, Whaling, Sailors, and Ships
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Proofs of illustrations and decorations for Lakeside edition of Moby Dick, or the whale, by Herman Melville, illustrated by Rockwell Kent].
