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  • Whaling: sailors arriving at Greenland to kill whales, their ships being out at sea. Aquatint by R. Dodd, 1789.
  • Pilot Whale Campaign.
  • Pilot Whale Campaign.
  • A whale. Coloured etching.
  • A whale. Engraving, ca 1793.
  • Greenland: above, indigenous fish including seals; centre, three different whales; below, whale fisher in their attire. Coloured etching.
  • Greenland: fishermen spearing whales from the safety of their boats; right, whale fisher in their attire. Coloured etching.
  • A narwhal, a common whale and a pike-headed whale. Etching by J Scott, ca 1812, after S Edwards.
  • Median Sagittal section of whales tooth
  • A narwhal and large sperm whale. Engraving.
  • Jonah and the whale. Engraving after P. Brill.
  • Neolithic rock art depicting whale and elk, Scandinavian.
  • Above, a beluga whale; below, a porpoise. Coloured etching.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the US Government building: natural history exhibit featuring a whale skeleton and life-sized whale model. Photograph, 1904.
  • Three small toothed whales, including a Guinea porpoise. Etching by G. Child.
  • A sperm whale attacks a giant squid. Colour line block after A. Twidle.
  • Thirteen different mammals ranging from apes, rodents and marsupials to a whale. Coloured lithograph.
  • Seventeen fishes; including a sturgeon, sword fish, narwhal and whale. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • A beaked whale blowing a fountain of water through its snout. Coloured engraving, ca 1815.
  • A common whale, a dolphin and a porpoise. Coloured engraving by P Dixon, ca 1824.
  • A Bowhead whale resting on a sandbank. Chromolithograph by F. Gerasch after A. Gerasch, 1860/1880?.
  • The top side of a large, flat whale coloured black with a white snout. Coloured engraving.
  • A stranded whale is examined by two fishermen. Engraving by A. M. Fournier after E. Traviès.
  • Men are fishing for whale in small boats with harpoons; larger sailing ships are in the distance. Aquatint.
  • The belly and side of a large, flat whale coloured black with a white snout and underside. Coloured engraving.
  • A whale being speared with harpoons by fishermen in the Arctic sea. Engraving by A. M. Fournier after E. Traviès.
  • 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.
  • Above, two starfish, two worms, a fin whale, a fish, a cockroach and two fish; below, a fish, two snakes (boas), and two insects. Engraving by Heath.
  • A whale with the head of the Prince Regent spouts two streams inscribed "The liquor of oblivion" and "The dew of favour", referring to his desertion of the Whigs and to favours bestowed on the Tories. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.