Scrimshaw
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 5/8 x 5 7/8 x 2 7/8 in. ( 6.7 x 14.9 x 7.3 cm )
Description:
Whale's tooth inscised with winter scene of soldiers within a cartouche with inscription at bottom.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.78
Marks:
inscribed: in all capitals: "WASHINGTON/AT VALLEY FORGE"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
8477
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, pigment
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/8 x 2 1/8 x 1 5/8 in. ( 16.2 x 5.4 x 4.1 cm )
Description:
Whale's tooth engraved and blackened with a sailing scene depicting figure on a mast surrounded by full sails.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.86
Marks:
engraved: on bottom of tooth: "LAND, HO!"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
8476
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 3/4 x 2 3/8 x 1 1/2 in. ( 14.6 x 6 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Engraved and polychromed scrimshaw whale's tooth; engraved on the obverse with a profile view of a frigate waving two red flags, one being American on the starboard side.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.29
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
8475
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, pigment
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 x 6 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. ( 5.7 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Whale's tooth engraved, blackened and polychromed with scene of ship at dock being loaded or unloaded.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.13
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
8474
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw tusk w/wooden peg: cribbage board
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1910-1943
Medium:
Walrus tusk, wood, pigment
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 x 25 x 2 3/4 in. ( 5.7 x 63.5 x 7 cm )
Description:
Walrus tusk pierced to make cribbage board. Inscribed and blackened with images of a figure in a kayak, foliage, seals on iceberg-all on obverse drying fish on racks on side, seals lounging on icebergs on reverse.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.153
Gallery Label:
Stuart M. Frank, scrimshaw historian attributes this to Alaskan Eskimo work known as the “Nome School”.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1943
eMuseum Object ID:
8470
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, pigment
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/2 x 6 x 1 7/8 in. ( 6.4 x 15.2 x 4.8 cm )
Description:
Whale's tooth engraved and blackened with battle scene with two men-of-war (two ships).
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.90
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
8469
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, pigment
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 2 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. ( 14 x 7 x 3.5 cm )
Description:
Whale's tooth engraved with an image of a ship at full sail with an American flag, colored with red pigment, flying from the bow.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.98
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
8468
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, pigment
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 x 7 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. ( 5.7 x 18.1 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Whale's tooth engraved and blackened with hunting scene including ship in background with whale and small boat with six figures in foreground.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.18
Gallery Label:
The scene is a poor copy of "Peche de la Baleine," a painting by the French artist and corsair Ambroise Louis Garneray, published as an engraving in 1835.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
8467
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, ink
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 2 x 1 1/2 in. ( 14 x 5.1 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Engraved whale's tooth, engraving of frigate from the stern perspective; whale blowing at bottom of tooth.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.33
Marks:
engraved: "SHIP JAMES ARNOLD"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
8466
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Scrimshaw (whale's tooth)
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Ivory, ink
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/8 x 2 7/8 x 1 1/8 in. ( 11.1 x 7.3 x 2.9 cm )
Description:
Engraved scrimshaw whale's tooth, engraved on obverse with a frigate flying the American flag and on the reverse with an anchor.
Credit Line:
Gift of Fanny Shapiro
Object Number:
1943.152
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
8465
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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