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The North West on Davis's Streights Whale Fishery.
Rob. Dodd delin.t Fran. Ambrosi sculp.t
[n.d. c.1795.]
Engraving, very scarce. Plate 260 x 375mm. 10¼ x 14¾". Large margins. Tearing and creasing in the margins. Crease through lower right-hand corner of image.
Scene of whaling amidst glaciers whre in the foreground the Harpoonist is ready to strike. The Davis Straits can be found between Greenland and Nunavut, Canada's Baffin Island. Francesco Ambrosi may originate from Padua and be associated with Remondini in Bassano. There are some Mediterrean and Spanish town views from the mid 18th century engraved by him. See ref:20316 for companion print and more information on the British Whaling pictures by Dodd. Parker:2416.
[Ref: 20315] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
The Greenland Whale Fishery.
Rob. Dodd delin.t. Fran. Ambrosi sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1795.]
Very scarce engraving. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"), with wide margins. Crease through centre of image, damage in the margins.
“Greenland whale fishery” came to refer to whaling in the waters between Spitsbergen and Greenland. Whaleships followed the northward summer migration of the bowhead, sailing first to Spitsbergen, then drifting west to the edge of the East Greenland ice pack. The season generally laster four to five months. The identity of the two British whaleships in Robert Dodd's portrayal is unknown, but it is almost certain they were London-based vessels operating out of the Thames from where the largest British whaling fleet was based until well into the nineteenth century. By the mid-eighteenth century, the shortage of Arctic whales was already sending the whaling fleets as far away as Greenland. The Howland Great Wet Dock at Rotherhithe - built at the end of the seventeenth century - was, in 1763, renamed the Greenland Dock. In 1783, the year in which Dodd completed the painting from which this engraving is done the British whaling industry saw a marked revival after a wartime depression. The trade soon began to revive after the peace settlement with both France and the United States. An increase in the government whaling bounty was an added incentive to put more vessels into this extremely lucrative trade. This painting was engraved and published twice. The first occasion by John & Josiah Boydell of Cheapside in 1789 and again in 1795, by Fran. Ambrosi. Two separate printings would suggest a strong popular demand amongst whaling ship owners, masters and crews, for whom a generic image would perhaps be rather more attractive than one of vessels belonging to their rivals. See ref:20315 for the companion picture and information of the engraver. Not in Parker.
[Ref: 20316] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
The Greenland Whale Fishery.
Rob. Dodd delin.t Fran. Ambrosi sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1795.]
Very scarce & fine engraving. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾") very large margins.
A fleet of whalers in the Arctic, with a longboat landing hunters on the ice. The identity of the two ships flying British flags is unknown, but it is almost certain they were London-based vessels operating out of the Thames from where the largest British whaling fleet was based until well into the nineteenth century. See Ref: 35656
[Ref: 60511] £520.00
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