Whalebone Scrapers

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(Plate 18.)

Artist

Name:: Walker, George
Dates:: 1781-1856
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: People
Technique:: Etching
Engravers:: Havell, Robert Sr.; Havell, Daniel
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: The New York Public Library

Book

Title:: The costume of Yorkshire
Author:: Walker, George
Publisher:: London, Leeds: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, R. Ackermann, Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, 1814
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Description:

Hand-colored aquatint showing two men using knives to scrape whalebones laid on rough-hewn planks supported by four kegs, while in the background, more bones are stood up to dry before being cleaned by two men equipped with brooms.

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