Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Instruments used in the Whale Fishery.
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Accession number:
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02260
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Record number:
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02260-8
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JCB call number:
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D820 S523a
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Image title:
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Instruments used in the Whale Fishery.
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Creator 1:
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William Scoresby
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Creator 1 dates:
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1789-1857
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Creator 1 role:
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Drawn by
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Creator 2:
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W. & D. Lizars
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Creator 2 role:
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sculpt.
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Place image published:
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Edinburgh
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Image publisher:
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Constable & Co.
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Image date:
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1820
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Image function:
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Plate XVIII [18]; vol. 2, end of book
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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17.8 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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12.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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21.6 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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13 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Items are numbered for identification in the explanation of plates. The instruments consist of: 1. gun-harpoon; 2. harpoon; 3. gun-harpoon; 4, 5, 6, lances; 7, 8, 9, and 10 blubber-spades; and 11 and 12 prickers.
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Source creator:
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Scoresby, William, 1789-1857
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Source Title:
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An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. ... Vol. II.
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Source place of publication:
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Edinburgh
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Source publisher:
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Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh: and Hurst, Robinson and Co. Cheapside, London.
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Source date:
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1820
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notes:
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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).
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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References:
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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
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1874.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Arctic
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geographic area:
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North America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject headings:
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Whaling
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