RARE WHALING PRINT BY BENJAMIN RUSSELL (MA, 1804-1885)

"Right Whaling in the Behring Sea and It's Varieties", 1897, hand colored lithograph after the painting by Russell, text across bottom of lithograph reads "Copyrighted 1871 by Benjamin Russell./ CAPE EAST./ SHIP ABANDONED, CRUSHED IN THE ICE./ TOWING BLASTED WHALE TO SHIP./ TRYING OUT AT ANCHOR./ BLUBBER LOGGED./ BOW HEAD WHALE PURSUED./ THE DIAMEDES./ FAIRWAY ROCKS./ FULL SHIP ROUND HOME./ BOAT IN FULL CHASE./ SHIPS TRYING OUT IN THE ARCTIC./ LANCING A BOW HEAD./ TAKING IN HEAD WITH WHALEBONE./ Copyrighted 1897 by H. S. Hutchinson & Co. New Bedford, Mass./ CAPE PRINCE OF WHALES./ SHIP BOILING HER LAST WHALE./ WALRUS ON THE ICE./ RIGHT WHALING IN BEHRING STRAITS AND ARCTIC OCEAN WITH ITS VARIETIES./ FROM AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY BENJAMIN RUSSELL, NEW BEDFORD, MASS." In mahogany molded cove frame with ebonized bands, white liner, matted and glazed, OS: 24" x 39 1/2", SS: 17" x 34". Toned, foxed.