Robert Gibbings

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Wood engraving from ‘The wreck of the whale-ship Essex’, 1935, which was destroyed by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean in 1819, as described by the first mate Owen Chase. The shipwreck inspired Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick. #woodengraving #illustration #rarebooks #whales #author #artist #mobydick #shipwreck

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Cutting Herrings. Robert Gibbings. Wood engraving from 1923 from one of the most prolific of engravers who did more than anyone to popularize wood engraving during the last century. #Robertgibbings #woodengraving #herrings #harbour #fishermen #illustration #goldencockerel

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Gibbings wears the diving helmet on one of his #underwater drawing expeditions in Bermuda. The drawings were reproduced as #woodengravings in his 1938 Penguin classic ‘Blue Angels and Whales’, the book that sparked the young Sir David Attenborough’s interest in natural history. #underwaterartist #robertgibbings #firstmantodrawunderwater @robert_gibbings