Title: The Whale Fishery: Attacking a "Right Whale" --and "Cutting In"
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1860
Artist: Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives 
Artist bio: American, active New York, 1857–1907
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Publisher
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions: Image: 16 1/8 × 23 13/16 in. (41 × 60.5 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 in. × 27 in. (50.5 × 68.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Whales, term: Boats