Scrimshaw - Wikipedia
网页Scrimshaw developed from the practice of sailors on whaling ships creating common tools, where the byproducts of whales were readily available. The term originally referred to the making of these tools, only later referring to works of art created by whalers in …
Scrimshaw Sperm Whale’s Tooth - National Museum of American History
网页Scrimshaw began in the late 18th or early 19th century as the art of carving whale bone and ivory aboard whale ships. The crew on whalers had plenty of leisure time between sighting and chasing whales, and the hard parts of whales were readily available on voyages that could last up to four years.
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网页Scrimshaw began in the late 18th or early 19th century as the art of carving whale bone and ivory aboard whale ships. The crew on whalers had plenty of leisure time between sighting and chasing whales, and the hard parts of whales were readily available on voyages that could last up to four years.
Art and Literature - New Bedford Whaling Museum
网页Pictorial Scrimshaw. From the orthodox ship-portraits and whaling scenes pioneered in the 1820s, the pictorial repertoire expanded dramatically in the 1830s to include virtually every kind of image and theme. Sedate female figures …
Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, 20th Century - Smithsonian …
网页On the obverse of this large sperm whale tooth is a big three-masted ship sailing from right to left in a high sea against a hilly shoreline. A light or beacon shines from a tower on the shore behind the ship, which has 12 gunports cut or painted on its port or left side.
Scrimshaw Whale Tooth - Scituate Historical Society
网页Scrimshaw is an art form that emerged during the late 18th and early 19th centuries on whaling ships. With access to whale teeth, bones, and other remnants from their catches, whaling crews transformed their spare time during …
19th Century SCRIMSHAW Artistry - MARITIME History Revealed
网页Scrimshaw refers to intricate engravings done on whale ivory or bone, commonly created by sailors during their long voyages. It was a popular practice among sailors to create artwork, usually depicting maritime scenes, on various objects such as sperm whale teeth, baleen plates, or even ship instruments.
Scrimshaw - New Bedford Whaling Museum
网页2012年5月13日 · Scrimshandering, as the whalemen called it — making scrimshaw — was an indigenous and exclusive shipboard art of the deepwater trades, practiced mostly by whalers but also occasionally by navy tars and merchant seamen.
Scrimshaw: The Whaler's Art by Dr. Alan Granby - InCollect
网页2022年7月27日 · Scrimshaw is the art of engraving on or carving items from whale bone, sperm whale teeth, walrus tusks, baleen, and other material byproducts of the nineteenth-century whaling trade.
| National Museum of American History
网页Scrimshaw began in the late 18th or early 19th century as the art of carving whale bone and ivory aboard whale ships. The crew on whalers had plenty of leisure time between sighting and chasing whales, and the hard parts of whales were readily available on voyages that could last up to four years.
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