The bark SUPERIOR enters Bering Straits, July 23, 1848. hotsell Signed by the artist

One of 12 aquarelles portraying the dangerous occupation of Yankee whaling ships hotsell and sailors in their incursion into the most northern reaches of the Pacific, from the sailing period into the age of steam. Produced for portfolio inclusion with the volume "American Whalers in the Western Arctic - the final epoch of the great American sailing whaling fleet".