English whalers hunting whales in the Northern Seas near Greenland, 18th century. A harpooner on a rowboat takes aim at a whale in front of a frozen landscape of icebergs. Bowhead whale or polar whale, Balaena mysticetus. Whale fishery. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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