Object Details
- Ocean/Sea/Gulf
- North Atlantic Ocean, North Sea
- Barthelmess, K. and I. Svanberg (2013). "A watercolour of a stranded sperm whale from the late seventeenth century." Archives of natural history 40(1): 38–44. ABSTRACT: A manuscript album, known as Kungsboken, contains various documents of military relevance assembled during the rule of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII. Among them is a watercolour depicting a stranded sperm whale. The painting is not signed or dated but is believed to have been done around 1675. It may be an illustration of a whale that was stranded on the north German coast, then part of the Swedish empire. The painting is an interesting example of anamorphosis.
- Record Last Modified
- 20 May 2024
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Collection Date
- 1675
- Other Numbers
- Whale Field Number 1 : No number
- USNM Number
- STR18630
- Length - Total
- 16 m
- Sex
- Male
- Place
- Germany?, Germany, Europe, North Atlantic Ocean
- Published Name
- Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758
- Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758
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- Vertebrate Zoology
- Mammals
- Taxonomy
- Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteridae
- NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division
- Record ID
- nmnhvz_11004768
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/345b65449-5c27-416b-a7a6-c94837221faf
