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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 up. Spermeciti candles and whale oil were prized for lighting. Whalebone, from the plates from the upper jaw of whalebone whales, was used for corsets and for umbrella frames. Whale meat was eaten. Ambergris was used in perfumes. Parts which were otherwise of no use were applied as fertilizer. From Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man. (London, c1850).
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4509px × 3874px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
Agriculture
Ambergris
aquatic life
Benjamin Waterhouse
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
color
Fertilizer
Hawkins
JOB
Lighthouse
lighting
Lithograph
NINETEENTH CENTURY
OCCUPATION
oil
Oxford Science Archive
People
Perfume
Print Collector1
PROFESSION
Ship
SHIPS
THOMAS
Thomas Varty
TRADE
transport
TRANSPORTATION
Umbrella
Varty
water transport
Whale
whale blubber
whale oil
Whalebone
whaler
Whaling