Nantucket Sunrise over Nantucket in1835

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Description

This view of Commercial Wharf offers a play on the silhouettes of several whaleships in port.  It retrospect it seems strange that such a primary industry as whale oil production could survive with its headquarters on an off shore island, but before the silting up of the main channel caused shipowners to move to New Bedford, Nantucket was the “Whaling Capital of The World.”

 

Additional information

Dimensions 18 × 30 in
Signed or Remarqued

Signed, Remarqued

Edition Size

850

Issue Date

1987