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Hand-colored aquatint (a method of etching a printing plate so that tones similar to watercolor washes can be reproduced). One of a series of eight. Detailed close-up view of a partially submerged whale spouting water. A sailor accompanied by six rowers in a small boat prepares to harpoon the whale. Two small boats clustered around a ship are depicted in the distance.