Lot 179
  • 179

(Williams, Capt. E. C.)

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Description

Broadside playbill for Williams's "Celebrated Representation of a South Sea Whaling Voyage (20 1/2  x 7  1/4 in.; 520 x 184 mm), Boston, [1860's]; some small nicks to edges; matted, glazed and framed (not examined out of frame). 

Catalogue Note

From May 1858 to March 1866, Captain E. C. Williams, a whaling ship captain, toured New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine, with a panorama variously titled Life in the South Seas, Grand South Sea Whaling Voyage, and Celebrated Representation of a South Sea Whaling Voyage.