MIT Museum

Major collection: Hart Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
Object type: engraving
Maker: Stewart, James; Lizars, William Home
Place made: United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh
Date made: 1837
Materials: ink; paper; mounted
Measurements: 4 in x 6 1/2 in
Nomenclature: natural history
Classification: whales

Colored engraving of a beached P. Griseus. The head is large, obtuse and somewhat rounded; the upper jaw is several inches larger than the lower; the dorsal fin commences about the middle of the back, and is elevated and pointed; the tail is quite large. There are no teeth in the upper jaw and only eight in the lower. It has some resemblance to the Deductor or Ca'ing Whale.

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