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A whaling scene

Monamy Swaine · c. 1790

Monamy Swaine: c. 1750–1800

UnclassifiedUnited Kingdom
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Monamy Swaine, Monamy Swaine

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A whaling scene

c. 1790

Royal Museums Greenwich

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Monamy Swaine. A whaling scene. Image credit: Monamy Swaine; Source credit: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/swaine-monamy-c-1750c-1800. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Resized and JPEG-compressed; selected source frame preserved.

Collection: Royal Museums Greenwich

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Monamy Swaine. A whaling scene. Image credit: Monamy Swaine; Source credit: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/swaine-monamy-c-1750c-1800. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Resized and JPEG-compressed; selected source frame preserved.