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The cover a a new edition of the book Moby-Dick by Herman Mellville, illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Oh boy oh boy oh boy!!
#MobyDick #RockwellKent #Essex #MochaDick
#booksky #BookAWeek2026 #ReadABook
I won't be able to read this one in a week, but so excited to have it in my hands!!
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Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971). Christmas card (Angel), ca. 1940. Lithograph on white paper adhered to metallic gold paper adhered to gray paper #RockwellKent #art #printmaking #lithograph #Christmas #winter #night #snow #stars #angel
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![[image] from Chapter 44. The Chart
Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. The Modern Library (published by Random House) 1930.
[quote] ... you would have seen him intently study the various lines and shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady pencil trace additional courses over spaces that before were blank. page 282 .](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreibub236xbib44gqmnhjy5j7et5nwcdfuukxc6vxm7rqcwisuqawha)
[image] from Chapter 44. The Chart Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. The Modern Library (published by Random House) 1930. [quote] ... you would have seen him intently study the various lines and shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady pencil trace additional courses over spaces that before were blank. page 282 .
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Nègre, Julien. (2022). The World in a Footnote: Examining Ahab’s Chart in Chapter 44 of Moby-Dick. Miranda. No. 26 Melville’s Measures. https://doi.org/10.4000/miranda.47428
Abstract:
Chapter 44 of Moby-Dick (“The Chart”) includes a footnote comparing Ahab’s plan to track Moby Dick across the globe with Matthew F. Maury’s efforts to chart the winds and currents of the oceans and produce an accurate “whale chart.” This article unpacks the effects produced by the addition of the footnote in the chapter and uses it as a starting point for examining Ahab’s charts and discussing the interactions between map and text. At first sight, Maury’s chart is used as a stable reference point that reinforces the verisimilitude of Ahab’s plan. A comparison of Ahab’s use of nautical charts with actual documents used by whaling captains, though, reveals a disjunction between his cartographic ratiocinations and Maury’s work. Yet the most significant detail in the footnote might be the fact that Maury’s chart is “in course of completion”: far from being a definite document that the text can rely on to bolster the plausibility of Ahab’s method, the chart remains unseen—and even unseeable, since the version described in the footnote was never produced in reality. The “deictic” gesture performed by the footnote duplicates Ahab’s yearning for an object that constantly eludes him.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreibo5qzjfvyls32jfpxgfw456vrtepihckzzoz3hr4ppslhopesytu)
[image of a journal article] Nègre, Julien. (2022). The World in a Footnote: Examining Ahab’s Chart in Chapter 44 of Moby-Dick. Miranda. No. 26 Melville’s Measures. https://doi.org/10.4000/miranda.47428 Abstract: Chapter 44 of Moby-Dick (“The Chart”) includes a footnote comparing Ahab’s plan to track Moby Dick across the globe with Matthew F. Maury’s efforts to chart the winds and currents of the oceans and produce an accurate “whale chart.” This article unpacks the effects produced by the addition of the footnote in the chapter and uses it as a starting point for examining Ahab’s charts and discussing the interactions between map and text. At first sight, Maury’s chart is used as a stable reference point that reinforces the verisimilitude of Ahab’s plan. A comparison of Ahab’s use of nautical charts with actual documents used by whaling captains, though, reveals a disjunction between his cartographic ratiocinations and Maury’s work. Yet the most significant detail in the footnote might be the fact that Maury’s chart is “in course of completion”: far from being a definite document that the text can rely on to bolster the plausibility of Ahab’s method, the chart remains unseen—and even unseeable, since the version described in the footnote was never produced in reality. The “deictic” gesture performed by the footnote duplicates Ahab’s yearning for an object that constantly eludes him.
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Day 2 - #lines
Then seating himself before it, you would have seen him intently study the various lines and shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady pencil trace additional courses over spaces that before were blank.
#MobyDick #Chapter44 #TheChart #RockwellKent
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The bold woodcuts in this 1933 #RockwellKent art book, published during The Great Depression,share with us,the angst and fear we feel today,living in equally,if not worse, unsettled days.His work is relevant; art speaking out, as the Country's glorious colors shade to black & white. #booksky
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Rockwell Kent
American artist
1882-1971
Calm and Free (Maine Coast), 1909
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#Americanart
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📚⚓ Ink, Sea & Legacy: Melville x Kent on Page and Postage
What happens when a literary leviathan meets a visionary with a brush?
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#MobyDick #HermanMelville #RockwellKent #LiteraryStamps #Bookstagram #Philately #AmericanIllustrators #PageAndPostage #BooksAndStamps
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Rockwell Kent - Seal Hunter: North Greenland (1933)
This picture is in the collection of the no longer easy to visit Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
I'm posting it for those of us in the northern hemisphere who are not enjoying the heat!
#Art #Painting […]
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🎨 #RockwellKent, American artist, painter, and illustrator, was #BOTD 21 June 1882. #Art #Painting #Illustration
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Beneath endless skies and restless waves—Moby-Dick, rare 1930 first edition illustrated by Rockwell Kent.
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#BookWithASoul #MFLIBRA #OwnAPieceOfHistory #RareBooks #MobyDick #HermanMelville #RockwellKent #IllustratedClassics #CollectorTreasures
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Beneath endless skies and restless waves—Moby-Dick, rare 1930 first edition illustrated by Rockwell Kent.
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#BookWithASoul #MFLIBRA #OwnAPieceOfHistory #RareBooks #MobyDick #HermanMelville #RockwellKent #IllustratedClassics #CollectorTreasures
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« Beowulf and The Dragon », 1931
by Rockwell Kent (American painter, 1882-1971)
Signed lithograph, illustration from W.E. Leonard’s translation of the old English epic story Beowulf, 1932
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #rockwellkent #artdeco #anglosaxonart #beowulf
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Face the great white whale in Moby-Dick – a rare 1930 first edition illustrated by Rockwell Kent.
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#BookWithASoul #MFLIBRA #OwnAPieceOfHistory #RareBooks #MobyDick #HermanMelville #RockwellKent #ClassicLiterature #VintageBooks #CollectorTreasures
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Face the great white whale in Moby-Dick – a rare 1930 first edition illustrated by Rockwell Kent.
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#BookWithASoul #MFLIBRA #OwnAPieceOfHistory #RareBooks #MobyDick #HermanMelville #RockwellKent #ClassicLiterature #VintageBooks #CollectorTreasures
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Rockwell Kent
American artist
1882 -1971
Road to Asgaard: Adirondacks, 1960
Oil on canvas
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👉 The cool thing about Kent was he wasn't just an American painter, He was also a printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager.
This Cat Lived Life!
RIP Today, Mar 13, 1971 – #RockwellKent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882) walked on.
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Rockwell Kent
American artist
1882-1971
Mountain Lake, 1922-25
Oil on wood panel
15 5/8 x 20 1/8 in
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Rockwell Kent
1882-1971
Maine Headland, Evening, c 1950
Oil on canvas
34.1 x 44 inches
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Rockwell Kent
1882-1971
Alaskan inlet, 1919
Oil on canvas mounted on board
28 x 34 inches
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