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Engraving depicting a beached male whale, with beached fishes of various types in the foreground. Figures stand on the beach marvelling at the whale, and others climb atop it. The title, translating to "whale", is printed above the whale. With a village at the base of mountains at far right, and a lantern on a post hanging at far left in the foreground.
Text describing fish in Chinese rivers on verso, in Latin.
From the book "Legatio Batavica ad Magnum Tartariae Chamum Sungteium, Modernum Sinae Imperatorem."


whales
1668-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Meursium, Jacobum
ink; paper
4 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in
Netherlands: Amsterdam