Record Number: DRY0127

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Whale-Hunt at Burgh-Westra

Keyword(s): Boats - Hunting - Seascapes

Artist: William Heysham Overend

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 14.5

Date: 1893

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Dryburgh Edition], 25 vols (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 13, facing p. 178

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts two rowing boats moving close to a large whale, with a man at the stern of the lead boat about to throw his harpoon [Ch. 17].

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