DateCirca 1950
MediumSilver Gelatin Print
Dimensions3 1/2 × 5 in. (8.9 × 12.7 cm)
Object number2000.100.10.1
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionPhotograph of Panbone (whole) polychrome engraved with a faithful, virtually full-size copy of the lithograph by Benjamin Russell (1804-1885), "Right Whaling in Behring Straits and Arctic Ocean with its Varieties" (New Bedford: H.S. Hutchinson & Co., 1871).Jaw pans "from [a] whale taken at Nantucket, jaw measured 17 feet. Formerly in basement of Nantucket Museum. Mr. W.H. Tripp boiught jaw + cut off end with some teeth (see S-325) [2001.100.621]. Sold the pan bones to Mr. [Morgan] Levine who had whaling scenes etched by Leopold Harnois in New Bedford. Mrs. [Evelyn] Kendall bought them from Mr. Levine." (Old KWM filecard note)
On View
Not on view
Circa 1952
Circa 1950
1725-1960
John R. Manta (Schooner)
Santos, John B.
19th Century
Tripp, William H.
