Genre:

Illustration, Drollery; Essay, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

R, pseud.  [Richard Doyle] *

Subjects:

Hunting

    Reports on the attempt by Arthur Wellesley (1st Duke of Wellington) and Margate boatmen to rescue a stranded whale. Notes the dispute between Wellington, the 'Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports [...] who refused to allow the captors to bone the whale for the sake of the whalebone', and Mr Waddington, a Margate surgeon who represented the interests of the captors. The illustration shows a beached whale as the subject for a tug-of-war between Wellington and the boatmen.