Description:
Part of portfolio of 26 lithographs and accompanying book by Lawrance Thompson.
Text from accompanying book by Lawrance Thompson, 19: Ahab in the Jaws:

And now,
while both elastic gunwales were
springing in out and out,
as the whale dallied with the doomed craft
in this devilish way...
then it was that monomaniac Ahab,
furious with this
tantalizing vicinity of his foe,
which placed him all alive and helpless
in the very jaws he hated;
frenzied with all this,
he seized the long bone with his naked hands,
and wildly strove
to wrench it from its gripe.

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