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Maker(s):Spruance, Benton
Culture:American (1904-1967)
Title:Ahab Aloft from the portfolio Moby Dick/Passion of Ahab
Date Made:1965-1967
Type:Print
Materials:Lithograph
Place Made:North America; United States
Measurements:Sheet: 22 in x 16 in; 55.9 cm x 40.6 cm
Accession Number:  MH 1971.164.18.I(b).RII
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Stuart Otto (Margaret Glover, Class of 1924)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Part of portfolio of 26 lithographs and accompanying book by Lawrance Thompson.
Text from accompanying book by Lawrance Thompson, 18: Ahab Aloft:

All sail being set,
he now cast loose the life-line,
reserved for swaying him to the main royal-mast head;
and in a few moments
they were hoisting him thither,
when, while but two thirds of the way aloft,
and while peering ahead
through the horizontal vacanct
between the main-top-sail and top-gallant-sail,
he raised a gull-like cry
in the air,
"There she blows! -
there she blows!
A hump like a snow-hill!
It is Moby Dick!"

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