PAINTING - (a) INDO-PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHIN & (b) ROUGH-TOOTHED DOLPHIN
c. 19752 paintings in single framed work (a) Indo Pacific Humpback Dolphin - grey colored with white flecks, robust bodied with distinctive dorsal fin and long beak (7.) (b) Rough Toothed Dolphin - Dark grey upper with light grey underbelly and white markings/scars, with white beak and sloping forehead (6.);gouache on blue card, framed and mounted with inscription.
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Collection of 106 of paintings by Richard Ellis that were selected by the Smithsonian Institution to form a traveling exhibit of the marine mammals of the world. The collection was purchased by Perth businessman Kevin Parry in 1985 and donated to Whale World, now known as Albany's Historic Whaling Station.
Reframed No Verso RE1999.322a,b Original Verso-Smithsonian label checklist # 6, 7 Packing case # 1
Details
Details
INDO-PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHIN (Sousa chinensis)
Although the humpback dolphins are inshore species, found from South Africa throughout the Indo-Pacific region as far east as the China Sea, they are very poorly known; it is even unclear if there is a single species throughout this vast range, or ass many as three. Some scientists assign full species recognition to the white dolphin (Sousa borneensis), the lead-colored dolphin (S. plumbea), and the freckled dolphin (S. lentiginosa). The name "humpback" is derived from the peculian ridge on the back, on which is perched the small dorsal fin. These dolphins average about 8 feet in length, although some forms are longer.
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ROUGH TOOTHED DOLPHIN (Steno bredanensis)
This dolphin gets its common name from the striations on its teeth, which are too small to be seen with the naked eye. Steno is a dark purplish-brown, and is usually found with pinkish circular scars on its body, making it possible to describe the animal as a "purple dolphin with pink polka-dots." (The scars are believed to be caused by a species of small shark that takes circular bites from the living dolphin.) The rough-toothed dolphin reaches a length of 8 feet, and while it is found throughout the world's tropical and temperate waters, it is nowhere near common.
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Reframed No Verso RE1999.322a,b
The paintings represent a body of work by well-known American marine conservationist, author, artist and natural historian Richard Ellis (1938-2024).
Copyright and Reference
Copyright and Reference
Albany's Historic Whaling Station
Albany's Historic Whaling Station
Other items by Richard Ellis
- PAINTINGS - (a)SPECTACLED PORPOISE (b)BURMEISTER'S PORPOISE
- PAINTINGS - (a) DUSKY DOLPHIN & (b) PEALE'S DOLPHIN
- PAINTINGS OF (a)BELUGA & (b)NARWHAL
- PAINTINGS - (a)PYGMY SPERM WHALE (b)DWARF SPERM WHALE
- PAINTING - ROSS SEAL
- PAINTING - DALL PORPOISE
- PAINTING - SOUTHERN BOTTLENOSE WHALE
- PAINTINGS - (a) HARBOR PORPOISE (b) VAQUITA
- PAINTING - CHINESE RIVER DOLPHIN
- PAINTING - CRABEATER SEAL
- PAINTINGS - (a) GANGES RIVER DOLPHIN (b)INDUS RIVER DOLPHIN
- PAINTINGS - (a)CLYMENE DOLPOHIN (b)ATLANTIC SPOTTED DOLPHIN
More items like this
- PAINTINGS - SPOTTER DOLPHIN (11) & SPINNER DOLPHIN (12)
- PAINTING - STRIPED DOLPHIN
- PAINTINGS - (a)FRASER'S DOLPHIN & (b)WHITE BEAKED DOLPHIN
- PAINTINGS (a) NORTHERN RIGHT DOLPHIN (b)SOUTHERN RIGHT DOLPHIN
- PAINTING - COMMERSON'S DOLPHIN
- PAINTING - RISSO'S DOLPHIN
- PAINTING - HEAVISIDE'S DOLPHIN
- PAINTING - HOURGLASS DOLPHIN
Other items from Albany's Historic Whaling Station
- PAINTING - DENSE-BEAKED WHALE
- PAINTING - GRAY WHALE
- PAINTING - SOWERBY`S BEAKED WHALE
- PAINTING -PYGMY KILLER WHALE
- PAINTINGS - (a)TRUE'S BEAKED WHALE (b) GULFSTREAM BEAKED WHALE
- PAINTINGS - (a) FIN WHALE & (b)BLUE WHALE
- PAINTINGS - (a) RIGHT WHALE & (b) BOWHEAD WHALE
- PAINTING - HUMPBACK WHALE
- PAINTING - SPERM WHALE
- PAINTING - PYGMY RIGHT WHALE
- PAINTINGS - (a) MINKE WHALE & (b) BRYDE'S WHALE
- PAINTING - KILLER WHALE