Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10841

    ‘The White Whale’

    Date
    c.1895
    Creator - Organisation
    After
    Friedrich Specht (1839 - 1909, German) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    51310
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 115mm
    width (print): 165mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Maritime scene showing two beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas). The cetaceans are shown just below the surface of the sea.

    Illustration from p.44 of the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.3 (Frederick Warne, London 1894-1895).

    Monogrammed lower right: ‘FSp’. The title appears below the image: ‘THE WHITE WHALE (1/26 nat. size)’.

    Richard Lydekker (1849-1915) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894.
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