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Maker(s):Spruance, Benton
Culture:American (1904-1967)
Title:The Albatross from the portfolio Moby Dick/Passion of Ahab
Date Made:1965-1967
Type:Print
Materials:Lithograph
Place Made:North America; United States
Measurements:Sheet: 16 in x 20 in; 40.6 cm x 50.8 cm
Accession Number:  MH 1971.164.5.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, 5: The Albatross:

Standing in iron hoops
nailed to the mast,
they swayed and swung over a fathomless sea;
and though,
when the ship slowly glided
close under our stern,
we six men in the air
came so nigh to each other
that we might almost have leaped
from the mast-heads of one ship
to those of the other;
yet, those forlorn-looking fishermen,
mildly eyeing us as they passed,
said not one word to our own look-outs,
while the quarter-deck hail
was being heard from below.
"Ship ahoy!
Have ye seen the White Whale?"

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