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Title: Pêche de la Baleine. Whale-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 being harpooned by hunters in a whaling boat; another whale being butchered and blubber being pulled onboard a ship in background.
Date supplied by cataloger based on copy held by the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Printer/publisher supplied by cataloger based on similar item in collection (priTEC 0065). "Garneray pinx."--text, bottom left margin. "Martens sculp."--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 mezzotint : hand colored ; image 55.56 x 80.49 cm (21 7/8 x 31 11/16 in.) ; overall 62.07 x 82.55 cm (24 7/16 x 32 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priTEC 0064
476149
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23937
Language: English
French
French
Subject: Ships--Pictorial works
Whales--Pictorial works
Whaling--Pictorial works
Intaglio prints--Color--1825-1850. (gmgpc)
Source: Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection.
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Prints
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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