
Watch Case
Unrecorded maker
1800–1830 · Walrus ivory
Cleared · Public Domain
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190 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
290 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
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Watch Case
Unrecorded maker
1800–1830 · Walrus ivory
Cleared · Public Domain
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Various Ships and Views of Amsterdam (Verscheÿde Schepen en Gesichten van Amstelredam), Part II: The Black Bear, a Greenland Whaler
Clement de Jonghe (d. 1679)
1652–54 · Print, etching
Cleared · CC0
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Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner (d. 1851)
ca. 1845 · Oil on canvas
Cleared · Public Domain
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Shipwreck off Nantucket (Wreck off Nantucket after a Storm)
William Bradford (d. 1892)
ca. 1860–61 · Oil on canvas
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Whale Fishery: Attacking a "Right Whale" --and "Cutting In"
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
ca. 1860 · Hand-colored lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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Scrimshaw
Unrecorded maker
1830–70 · Probably bone or ivory
Cleared · Public Domain
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Whalers
Robert Brandard (d. 1862)
1879–80 · Steel engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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An Incident of Whaling
William Bradford (d. 1892)
1880s · Oil on canvas
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
The Whale Fishery: The Sperm Whale "in a Flurry"
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
ca. 1860 · Hand-colored lithograph
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
American Whalers Crushed in the Ice: "Burning the Wrecks to Avoid Danger to Other Vessels"
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1872–1874 · Hand-colored lithograph
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Whale Fishery: Sperm Whale "In a Flurry"
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1877–1894 · Hand-colored lithograph, with gum arabic
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Kergnotten Land, Hog Island, Royal Island, New Bedford, Whalers Station
John Moran (d. 1903)
1835–1900 · Pen and ink and wash
In copyright
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