Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10842

    ‘The Greenland Whale’

    Date
    c.1895
    Creator - Organisation
    Object type
    Library reference
    51310
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 255mm
    width (print): 165mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Maritime scene showing a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) being attacked by killer whales (Orcinus orca).

    Plate facing p.8 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.3 (Frederick Warne, London 1894-1895).

    Not signed or inscribed by artist or printer. Title appears below the image: ‘THE GREENLAND WHALE’.

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