Engraving of a beached male whale surrounded by people, with four columns of German text in blackletter typeface below. The whale is being measured by four men; two men atop it are cutting into its blubber; two men on the sand have cut open its side, and a turtle and various fishes have tumbled out of the resulting orifice; men and women, as well as two dogs, stand in the foreground, looking on. The whale, despite being dead, is depicted as spouting from a single, vast blowhole on the tip of its pointed snout. In the background is a city, at left, and a sea with another spouting whale and several ships, at right. Artist attribution, bottom left. Text below the image discusses the whale.
