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Title: Pêche du Cachalot. Chachalot Fishery
Creator: Garneray, Louis, 1783-1857, artist
Martens, Frederic, evngraver
Goupil & Vibert, printer
Goupil & Vibert, publisher
Contributor: Congdon, Theodore G., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
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 a whale breaching the surface of the water, smashing a whaling boat on its back, and throwing men into the sea during a whale hunt; other ships in the background.
Date approximated by cataloger based on similar item in collection (priTEC 0064). "Garneray pinx."--text, bottom left margin. "Martens sculp."--text, bottom right margin. Once folded, part of a large folio. "Paris, Publié par Goupil & Vibert, Boulevard Montmartre, 15, & rue de Lancry, 7"--text, bottom left margin. "Imprimerie de Goupil et Vibert."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 mezzotint : uncolored ; image 55.56 x 80.49 cm (21 7/8 x 31 11/16 in.) ; overall 73.34 x 93.66 cm (28 7/8 x 36 7/8 in.)
Identifier: priTEC 0065
476150
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23938
Language: English
French
French
Subject: Ships--Pictorial works
Whales--Pictorial works
Whaling--Pictorial works
Intaglio prints--1825-1850. (gmgpc)
Source: Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection.
Commercial
Prints
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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