Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, beached on an ice floe. Sailors and a row boat in the foreground, icebergs in the background. Greenland right whale, Arctic whale, steeple-top, or polar whale. La Baleine Franche. Handcoloured steel engraving by Charles Beyer and Alexandre Manceau after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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