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Whale, Atlantic Right |
Whale, Atlantic Right |
Context: Annotation: "Right" "horizon" "surface line". Preliminary sketch for Nelson, Edward W., "The Larger North American Mammals," National Geographic, Vol. 30, No. 5, Nov. 1916, p. 471.. Fuertes labeled this as a Right Whale, which it looks like, but the National Geographic article picture for which it appears to have been done labels it a "Greenland Right Whale, or Bowhead" (Balaena mysticetus). |
Date: 1915c. |
Location: Rare and Manuscript Collections |
Medium: Pencil |
ID Number: 2662-900-0550 |
Size: 9.5" x 11.875" |
Support: Paper |
Type: Preliminary drawings |
Title: Atlantic Right Whale |
Publication: National Geographic |