Monochrome engraving depicting a beached male whale, with men measuring its tail, another man on its back raising his axe to cut into the blubber, and two more men climbing up. There is a whaling boat with the harpooneersman about to cast his harpoon into a spouting whale in the background, as well as a sailing ship, and a hilly landmass. Under the image is printed "The MYSTICETUS, or common WHALE. Published by Nuttall Fisher & Dixon 3____339"
