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Uncolored engraving depicting men in whaleboats harpooning a school of spouting whales, with two ships in the background. With an elaborate border styled as a frame, with anchor motifs. In the lower margin is printed "Iob. Cap. XL.v.20 ad. fin XLI. Leviathan, balaena" and, in blackletter, the same Bible citation and "Leviathan, der Wallfisch". From "Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica Sacra oder geheiligte Naturwissenschafft derer in der heiligen Schrifft vorkommenden nat�_rlichen Sachen" by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer.


whales
1731-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Heumann, G.D.; Wagner, Christian Ulrich
ink; laid paper
14 in x 9 1/2 in
Germany: Augsburg and Ulm