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Views of whale and parts
Major collection: Hart Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
Object type: book page
Maker: unknown
Place made: unknown
Date made: 1800-1899
Materials: ink; paper; mounting; color wash
Measurements: 13 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in
Nomenclature: natural history
Classification: whales
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Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
Object type: book page
Maker: unknown
Place made: unknown
Date made: 1800-1899
Materials: ink; paper; mounting; color wash
Measurements: 13 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in
Nomenclature: natural history
Classification: whales
Page from a book with hand colored figures of cetaceans and their skeletons and teeth. Includes a porpoise, a dugong, and a manatee, as well as their bones, and the fossil teeth of a Zeuglodon (Basilosaurus, a genus of early whales from 40-34 mya).
AF-NX-2117