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A unique print of Moby Dick from the book by Herman Melville. This linocut print was created for a project with The Bodleian Library in Oxford, to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Herman Melville and his most famous fictional creation, Moby-Dick.
William Rowsell's linocut represents the more traditional entries in the exhibition. Capturing the furious struggle expressed in the extract, he locks whale, man, boat, sea, cloud and sky into a vigorous, swirling image on a paper and in a style that evoke the century in which Moby-Dick is set. As he pulled his prints from the 1828 Albion printing press, William might have wondered what the nine-year old Herman Melville was doing when hands were first laid on that Albion.