Forbes Whaling Pictures.

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Forbes Whaling Pictures.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647250154

A typed inventory of an art collection (453 pages). Given to MIT in 1940, this art collection was gathered by Allan Forbes, Sr., while he was president of the State Street Trust Company. It consists of over 2,000 prints and paintings from several countries depicting whales, whaling, and whaling vessels, ranging from sixteenth-century Dutch engravings to nineteenth-century Japanese woodcuts. Cataloged by general subject and country of origin.

3 boxes (1.5 linear feet)

Peabody Essex Museum

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Peabody Essex Museum

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Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955

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