The Whale Fishery "Laying On"
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Nathaniel Currier
Artist bio: American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York
Artist role: Publisher
Artist nationality: American
Date: 1852
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions: Image: 8 3/8 × 12 11/16 in. (21.3 × 32.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 14 1/2 in. (29.4 × 36.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
Accession year: 1963