Peche a la Baleine dans les Mers du Sud. (Whaling in the South Seas.)
Two-color lithograph handcolored, c.1860.
13 1/2 x 19 9/16" (343 x 497 mm) plus title and margins.
Good condition, save some minor foxing in the margins and a small repaired tear in the upper, outer margins. LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 13882
Price: $5,000.00
Publisher :
No. 12 above title. Signed "Lebreton" in stone next to anchor. Paris F. Sinnett, Edteur, rue d'Argenteuil, 17. Imp. Becquet, rue des Noyers, 37. Lebreton dessinateur aux Cartes ed Plans de la Marine. One of the important French produced whaling scenes. A United States flagged vessel is in the background. 18th-19th Century Subjects, Marine, Whaling