Whale fishery: attacking a right whale – Vintage Wall Art
![Whale fishery: attacking a right whale, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/83/8386e590ebd7-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Whale fishery: attacking a right whale, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Whale fishery: attacking a right whale
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Whalers in open boats are shown closing in on a right whale, one of the animals that gave the nineteenth-century whaling trade its name for the "right" whale to hunt: slow, floating near shore, and rich in oil and baleen. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that produced hand-colored lithographs for a mass market from the 1830s into the early twentieth century, issued many such scenes of the whale fishery, and this one is catalogued in the Gale Research raisonné of their work. The print reflects a trade that powered the American economy for decades, with whale oil fueling lamps and baleen used in corsets and umbrella ribs. Its dramatic, romanticized view of the hunt was typical of the firm's appeal to buyers at home.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7158 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,097 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110494 |
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