Whaling Collection

The Whale, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Whale, c1850. Around the main illustration of harpooning a whale and the whalers being tossed from their boat are vignettes of the uses to which the whale was put after the carcass had been cut

Scenes in Japan: a Japanese whaling-boat, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Scenes in Japan: a Japanese whaling-boat, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. F. L. Bedwell, of '...a specimen of the curious boats employed by the Japanese in the whale-fishery along [the]

Whales by an ice floe, 1830-1860. Creator: Albertus van Beest
Whales by an ice floe, 1830-1860. A whale spouts in the foreground as whalers approach with harpoons. In the background a three-masted sailing ship

Whaling, 1742-1801. Creator: Anon
Whaling, 1742-1801. Il Baleno e remigato alla nave'. Rowing boats drive the whales towards the ship

Whaling Grounds in the Arctic Ocean, 1654-1708. Creator: Abraham Storck
Whaling Grounds in the Arctic Ocean, 1654-1708

Launch of the "Earl of Hardwicke", Whaling Ship, at Cowes, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Launch of the "Earl of Hardwicke", Whaling Ship, at Cowes, 1850. Launch of...a fine barque, measuring about 256 tons...built for the Southern Whale-Fishery Company, by Messrs

Whaling off the Coast of the Goto Islands (Goto kujira tsuki), from the series "One... c. 1831-33
Whaling off the Coast of the Goto Islands (Goto kujira tsuki), from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)", Japan, c. 1831-33

Image of a Whale Hunt at Goto, Hizen Province (Hizen Goto geiryo no zu), from the series "... 1859
Image of a Whale Hunt at Goto, Hizen Province (Hizen Goto geiryo no zu), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)", 1859

Whaling Ships and Small Boats with Whale, 1769. Creator: Cornelis Ouboter van der Grient
Whaling Ships and Small Boats with Whale, 1769

Cutting up a blue whale, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Cutting up a blue whale, between c1900 and c1930

The Dutch Whaling Fleet, 1690 / 1700. Creator: Abraham Storck
The Dutch Whaling Fleet, 1690/1700. Sailors harpooning whales and attacking polar bears

The Whaler - Clayoquot, 1915. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Whaler - Clayoquot, 1915. [Native American man from the west coast of Canada]. Photogravure, plate 394 from " The North American Indian, volume 11" (1916)

Nipped in the Ice, 1876-94. 1876-94. Creators: Nathaniel Currier, James Merritt Ives
Nipped in the Ice, 1876-94. Three-masted whaling ship caught on ice in the ocean

An Incident of Whaling. Creator: William Bradford
An Incident of Whaling. (American, 1823-1892)

Replenishing the Ships Larder with Codfish off the Newfoundland Coast, 1811-ca. 1813

Whalers, ca. 1845. Creator: JMW Turner
Whalers, ca. 1845

Whale or Greenland Fishery, 1720, (1946). Creator: Elisha Kirkall
Whale or Greenland Fishery, 1720, (1946). British whaling ships off the coast of Greenland: sailors in small rowing boats hunt whales with harpoons; men attack a polar bear at bottom left

Whaling in the Antarctic. Creator: Keith Henderson
Whaling in the Antarctic. A whale is hit by a harpoon. Empire Marketing Board poster

South Sea Whale Fishery, 1825. Artist: Thomas Sutherland
South Sea Whale Fishery, 1825. From Adventures By Sea From Art of Old Time, by Basil Lubbock. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1925]

Northern Whale Fishery, c1829. Artist: Edward Duncan
Northern Whale Fishery, c1829. From Adventures By Sea From Art of Old Time, by Basil Lubbock. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1925]

South Sea Whale Fishery, 1836. Artist: Edward Duncan
South Sea Whale Fishery, 1836. After Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783-1857). From Old Ship Prints by E. Keble Chatterton. [John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London & New York, 1927]

Handling whales at the Bluff, Durban, South Africa. A print from View Album of Glorious Durban

Whaling Ships at Kingston On Hull, c1780. Artist: BF Liezel
Whaling Ships at Kingston On Hull, c1780. From Old Ship Prints by E. Keble Chatterton. [John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London & New York, 1927]

Whaling, Magdalene Bay, Spitzbergen, Norway, 1929

Whale blubber, Magdalene Bay, Spitzbergen, Norway, 1929

A whaler, Magdalene Bay, Spitzbergen, Norway, 1929

Danish Whaling Station, 1634. Artist: Speeck, Abraham (active 17th century)
Danish Whaling Station, 1634. Found in the collection of the Skokloster Castle

Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves, 1846. Artist: JMW Turner
Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves, 1846. From the Tate Gallery, London

Harpooning a Sperm Whale, 1837. Artist: William Jardine
Harpooning a Sperm Whale, from William Jardine The Naturalists Library: On the Ordinary Cetacea, Edinburgh, 1837

Harpooning a Greenland Whale which has tossed one of the attacking boats, 1837. Artist: William Jardine
Harpooning a Greenland Whale which has tossed one of the attacking boats. From William Jardine The Naturlists Library: On the Ordinary Cetacea, Edinburgh, 1837

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