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Whaling off the coast of California

Coleman (American, 19th century)
after 1858

Medium/Technique Black and colored chalk on prepared board
Dimensions Image: 46.4 x 70.5 cm (18 1/4 x 27 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 51.1 x 73.8 cm (20 1/8 x 29 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number53.2441
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 1194, fig. 290
DescriptionFolk art- sandpapers and pastels. Three-master sailing to right; men in whaleboat harpooning whale in foreground. The ship is the Joseph Grinell, built in Fairhaven, Mass., 1858.
InscriptionsOn back of original frame: Ship "Joseph Grinell" (built in Fairhaven, Mass., 1858) Captain William W. Thomas. This picture was crayoned on board the ship by mate named Coleman.
Provenance1953, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 12, 1953)