COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02260
Record number:
02260-1
JCB call number:
D820 S523a
Image title:
Dangers of the Whale Fishery.
Creator 1:
James Waddel
Creator 1 role:
From an Original Design by
Creator 2:
W. & D. Lizars
Creator 2 role:
Engraved by
Place image published:
Edinburgh
Image publisher:
Constable & Co.
Image date:
1820
Image function:
fold-out Plate XVII [17]; vol. 2, frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
19.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
21.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
21.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
25.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
A whale breaches the water and throws a boat with a man in it into the air. Includes whaling ship, boats, flags, oars, ropes, and harpoons.
Source creator:
Scoresby, William, 1789-1857
Source Title:
An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. ... Vol. II.
Source place of publication:
Edinburgh
Source publisher:
Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh: and Hurst, Robinson and Co. Cheapside, London.
Source date:
1820
notes:
This plate describes an incident related on p. 368 of the text in which a whaling boat from a ship out of Leith was tossed into the air by a whale. All but one of the crew (the man in the boat) was rescued. The event took place off the coast of Labrador in 1802.William Scoresby, born in Yorkshire of a father who made his fortune in whaling, became an Arctic explorer and, later, a clergyman. His observations of natural phenomena contributed to the understanding of Arctic conditions. He also mapped and charted the east coast of Greenland on his voyage there in 1823.This book is acknowledged to be an important source for Herman Melville's Moby Dick.One of the engravers is probably William Home Lizars, Scottish painter and engraver (1788-1859).According to the list of plates, this plate is misbound.
Time Period:
1801-1850
References:
Thorp, W. "Review of The Trying-Out of Moby-Dick by Howard P. Vincent," American Literature, vol. 22, no. 3. (Nov. 1950), p. 355-356
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Whales--Newfoundland and Labrador
Subject headings:
Whaling ships
Subject headings:
Whaling--Newfoundland and Labrador
Dangers of the Whale Fishery.
