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Hierographia (collection of 17) (Each depicting sheet containing picture with a whale)

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

Uncolored engraving depicting six seals or medals. The bottom right medal has a spouting whale, with twin stovepipe blowholes. A pencil inscription on the lower margin points out this medal in particular: "No. 6. Balaena Herum". Page 105 of the book "Symbola varia Diversorum Principum Sacrossane. Ecclesiae Et Sacre Imperij Romani," by Jacobus Typotius (1602). With text in Latin on verso.


whales
1602-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Sadeler, E.
ink; laid paper
12 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in
Czech Republic: Prague