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At the far a group of ships' left, pumpmakers are at work. The little yellow curricle of George would of the East India Marine Society return from their voyages with natural and MARITIME AMERICA are tied up, including Crowninshield, Jr. , future owner of the yacht Cleopatra's Barge, center. is in the artificial — or, in today's terms, ethnographic —specimens from the far comers of a world already circumnavigated countless times. The blank journals that Nathaniel Bowditch issued to society members would result in detailed navigational, meteorological, methods and customs of trade.

Stranded whales have been known since time of the whale hunt in Europe immemorial, and and elsewhere; but beginning established a pictorial record of major strandings 54 M U I T I M t AMERICA may —some in fact in 1577, have been the genesis it realistically was the Dutch who and others fancifully ' the Greenland Grounds, ca. 1772. The vessels are clearly identifiable from names on sternboards, the William Anna and De Jacob (center), (right). All (left), the the were Greenland whalers of Zaandam active in the 1 770s.

MUSHUM "i"1 34 35 34 ' 'Bacchanalian Frolic, ' baleen panel attributed the Elder (ca. Osborn 41 {ca. ' pressed to Jan Lutma 1584-1669) and Jan 1581-1643), 1618- ca. Surviving examples in this . medium are extremely rare. Most are portraits of the gentry or the Dutch royalfamily. 35 ' Whaling 'Ship Hollandia in Company on the Arctic Grounds" by Abram van Salm of Delftshaven (fl. ca. 1670-1720), ca. 1702. Monochrome penschildering {pen- painting) or grisaille {gray painting) on panel. Abram van Salm and his son Roelf {or Reynier) often utilized this —that remained rendered that virtually unbroken for the ensuing two and many of the later depictions were entirely original: by the to attract some of Holland's (1558-1617); Jacob stranding upon 1 a half centuries.

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