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Illustration from an 1860 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine showing a whaling boat from New Bedford or Nantucket dispatching small open boats with harpooners prepared to kill a sperm whale.

Charles d'Orbigny's 'Dictionanaire Universal d'Histoire Naturelle' 1839-1849. Steel engraving. Original hand coloring. professional high resolution scan with superb details, 1200 dpi, rich colors and contrast.

A giant sperm whale chases a ship through stormy seas. It's time for the ocean's revenge against the sailors who've hunted too many of the marine mammals. 3D illustration

Whalers appear to be preparing to cut up a beached Finback Whale. Illustrations by a famous Naturalist artist, Ernest Seton Thompson, published 1898 book about animals in North America. Source: Original edition is from my own archives. Copyright has expired and is in Public Domain.

Whalers in action. Historical view from the 19th century. Wood engraving after a paintig (The Flurry, c. 1848) by William Charles Duke (Irish-Australian painter, 1814 - 1853) in Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts (Hobart, Tosmania, Australia), published in 1869.

Illegal whaling RGB color icon. Commercial whale hunting. Unlawful fishery. Illegal trade and poaching. Whale protection rules. Isolated vector illustration. Simple filled line drawing

A photograph of the tail of a humpback whale after surfacing to feed off the coast of Provincetown in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States. The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale. It has a distinctive body shape, with long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. It is known for breaching and other distinctive surface behaviours, making it popular with whale watchers.

Two boats full of sailors who are harpooning whales in the ocean. From a bound volume of “Chatterbox”, edited by J Erskine Clarke and published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, London. Copies of a children’s weekly magazine dated from 20 November 1886 to 5 November 1887.

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