Image / Pêche au cachalot sur les côtes du Méxique

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Title: Pêche au cachalot sur les côtes du Méxique
Creator: LeBreton, Louis, 1818-1866, artist
Imprimerie Lemercier et cie, printer
Dusacq et cie, publisher
Contributor: Congdon, Theodore G., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1837
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of French and American whalers harpooning a whale off the coast of Mexico; men cling to capsized boats around the harpooned whale; large ships in background.
Date supplied by cataloger based on artist and printer history; Lemercier et cie began operations in 1837, and artist Louis LeBreton died in 1866. "Paris, Dusacq et cie. 14 B' Poissonnière"--text, bottom left margin. "Imp. Lemercier, Paris."--text, bottom center margin. "L. LEBRETON"--artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : hand colored ; image 36.67 x 60.48 cm (14 7/16 x 23 13/16 in.) ; overall 54.45 x 74.14 cm (21 7/16 x 29 3/16 in.)
Identifier: priTEC 0051
476138
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23926
Language: French
French
Subject: Ships--Pictorial works
Whales--Pictorial works
Whaling--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1825-1850. (gmgpc)
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection.
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Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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