Robert Spring: Put to the Torch, CSS Florida and Clippership Jacob Bell Large Rockwell Kent illustrated the 1930

Rockwell Kent illustrated the 1930 Lakeside Press edition of “Moby Dick”

and this map provides historical context for the village decades before that legacy took shape

The composition rises from small figures along the foreground shore to the clustered village buildings and ultimately to the soaring abbey silhouette above

and his work has been featured in galleries across the United States

His prints were typically produced using traditional woodcut techniques

Robert Spring: Put to the Torch, CSS Florida and Clippership Jacob Bell Large Rockwell Kent illustrated the 1930Original watercolor signed by artist. The merchant ship Jacob Bell was in the West Indies, bound from Foochow, China, to New York, with a valuable cargo when she was captured by CSS Florida on 12 February 1863. She was burned the next day.