I.S. Müller. The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, c. 1760.
19th-century whaling logbook illustration, Massachusetts, c.1850.
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W. Scoresby, Dangers of the Whale Fishery: An account of the Arctic regions with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery, 1820.
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Thomas F. Petersen, Harpooning a Whale, 1924.
Barry Moser, The Sea Stopped Raging (Jonah and the Whale), Pennyroyal-Caxton Bible, 1970.
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎), One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean [Chie no Umi]; Gotô Kujira Tsuki (Whalling off the Goto Islands), c. 1834.
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St. Brendan’s Ship (on the back of a whale and his men praying), Nova Typis Transacta Navigatio, British Library, 1621.