Narwhal
Date
1811
Creator
Edward Mitchell (British) , Engraver
After
John Fleming (1785 - 1857, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
RCN32515
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 125mm
width (print): 211mm
width (print): 211mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine zoological studies of the male Narwhal Monodon monoceros. Side and underside views (figures 1-2) with a detail of the mammal’s blow-hole (figure 3).
Plate 6 accompanying the paper ‘Description of a small-headed Narwhal, cast ashore in Zetland’, by John Fleming, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, v.1 1808-1810, pp.131-148 (Edinburgh, 1811). Inscribed above: ‘Plate VI’. Inscribed below: ‘Rev. J Fleming delt. E. Mitchell sculpt.’
This small (12 feet in length) whale beached ‘at the entrance of the Sound of Weesdale, in Zetland [Shetland], on the morning of the 27th September 1808. The fishermen who live in the neighbourhood of the Sounds, observed it entangled among the rocks on the preceding day; and when they went to bring it ashore, they found it dead, though still warm.’
Rev. John Fleming (1785-1857) British naturalist and Free Church of Scotland minister appointed to the parish of Bressay, Shetland.
Plate 6 accompanying the paper ‘Description of a small-headed Narwhal, cast ashore in Zetland’, by John Fleming, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, v.1 1808-1810, pp.131-148 (Edinburgh, 1811). Inscribed above: ‘Plate VI’. Inscribed below: ‘Rev. J Fleming delt. E. Mitchell sculpt.’
This small (12 feet in length) whale beached ‘at the entrance of the Sound of Weesdale, in Zetland [Shetland], on the morning of the 27th September 1808. The fishermen who live in the neighbourhood of the Sounds, observed it entangled among the rocks on the preceding day; and when they went to bring it ashore, they found it dead, though still warm.’
Rev. John Fleming (1785-1857) British naturalist and Free Church of Scotland minister appointed to the parish of Bressay, Shetland.
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