Captain Biddle’s ‘coolness’ commandeers a sperm whale tooth
A portrait engraved in a sperm whale tooth circa 1830-1860 presents Captain James Biddle’s “coolness,” his “perseverance and self possession in difficult emergencies”: a dramatic gash splits the tooth-sitter’s chin. The mark evokes his U.S.S. Hornet’s engagement with the H.M.S. Penguin in March 1815...
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University of Delaware
2013
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| Online Access: | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/12663 |