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Maker(s):Spruance, Benton
Culture:American (1904-1967)
Title:Ahab in the Jaws 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 1971.164.19.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, 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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