Cutting in a Finback (Whale)
date: label: Date made
content: 1880
label: date made
content: 1886
label: date made
content: 1880s
name: label: painter
content: Ryder, J. S.
notes: label: Description
content: This painting by J.S. Ryder depicts a dead whale on its side against a dock. The whale is tied to the dock by its tail and is being stripped of its blubber by three man. One man is standing on the whale, cutting the blubber, while two others stand in the shallow water on each side of the tale, also cutting blubber. They all have knives or lances on the end of long poles. Two other men on the dock hoist a large piece of blubber up to the dock where it is rendered in a brick furnace by another man. A final man pouts oil into the barrels. A small row boat is tied to the end of the dock.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: depicted
content: Whaling
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0918.26
label: accession number
content: 1977.0918
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0918.26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oil Painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper canvas (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: oil production (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: oil paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: painting: 55.3 cm x 78 cm; 21 3/4 in x 30 11/16 in