Description

Hand-colored lithograph depicting men in a whaling boat attacking a spouting whale from the right; the harpooneers man is about to strike. In the background is a whale ship, where men are engaged in cutting-in a carcass of another whale, and two columns of smoke are rising up either from steam engines or blubber boilers. Title and publisher information, including address "125 Nassau St. New York", are printed in lower margin.