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Hand-colored page from a natural history book illustrating three spouting whales, with a scale in feet. Top, a narwhal (colored, like the other whales, blue-grey); below, a sperm whale; bottom, a baleen whale. Caption printed below the image: "Histoire Naturelle, Fig.1. La Baleine. Fig. 2. Le Cachalot. Fig. 3. Le Narwhal."


whales
1740-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Benard
ink; laid paper; color wash
15 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in
France