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British Paintings & Scrimshaw

Exhibition Dates: Closed June 2012

British scrimshaw

The triumph and failures of British whaling were presented here in a splendid array of paintings, prints, illustrated shipboard journals, and scrimshaw, including the earliest and many of the finest pieces in the world.

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