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  • Whaling: sailors arriving at Greenland to kill whales, their ships being out at sea. Aquatint by R. Dodd, 1789.
  • Men are fishing for whale in small boats with harpoons; larger sailing ships are in the distance. Aquatint.
  • A whale stranded on the coast at Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk; five men in the foreground, ship in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • Fishermen in boats have been attacking a whale but one boat is upset and a man is falling out. Coloured aquatint by E. Duncan after W.J. Huggins.