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Title: A ship on the north-west coast cutting in her last right whale
Creator: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885, artist
Mayer, A., lithographer
Imprimerie Lemercier et cie, publisher
Contributor: Congdon, Theodore G., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1843
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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 a whaling vessel lifting the upper jaw with baleen of a right whale, and removing blubber; the same vessel is depicted at left sailing home.
Date supplied by cataloger based on artist history; Benjamin Russell created the image after visiting the Pacific northwest coast of the United States on a whaling vessel in 1843. "Designed by B. Russell New Bedford"--text, bottom left margin. "Lith by A. Mayer."--text, bottom right margin. "Printed by Lemercier, Paris"--text, bottom center margin. "Executed undre [sic] the care of C. Combier, Director of the American Agency, Rue Notre-Dame des Victoires, 40 Paris"--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : hand colored ; image 43.18 x 67.15 cm (17 x 26 7/16 in.) ; overall 54.45 x 75.88 cm (21 7/16 x 29 7/8 in.)
Identifier: priTEC 0060
476147
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23935
Language: English
Subject: Ships--Pictorial works
Whaling--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1825-1850. (gmgpc)
Source: Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection.
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