A watercolour of a stranded sperm whale from the late seventeenth century
A manuscript album, known as Kungsboken, contains various documents of military relevance assembled during the rule of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII. Among them is a watercolour depicting a stranded sperm whale. The painting is not signed or dated but is believed to have been done aro...
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credinunivpr:10.3366/anh.2013.0134 2023-05-15T18:26:33+02:00 A watercolour of a stranded sperm whale from the late seventeenth century Barthelmess, Klaus 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2013.0134 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full-xml/10.3366/anh.2013.0134 en eng Edinburgh University Press https://www.euppublishing.com/customer-services/librarians/text-and-data-mining-tdm Archives of Natural History volume 40, issue 1, page 38-44 ISSN 0260-9541 1755-6260 Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) History Anthropology journal-article 2013 credinunivpr https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2013.0134 2022-04-01T05:05:23Z A manuscript album, known as Kungsboken, contains various documents of military relevance assembled during the rule of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII. Among them is a watercolour depicting a stranded sperm whale. The painting is not signed or dated but is believed to have been done around 1675. It may be an illustration of a whale that was stranded on the north German coast, then part of the Swedish empire. The painting is an interesting example of anamorphosis. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sperm whale Edinburgh University Press (via Crossref) Archives of Natural History 40 1 38 44 |
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A manuscript album, known as Kungsboken, contains various documents of military relevance assembled during the rule of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII. Among them is a watercolour depicting a stranded sperm whale. The painting is not signed or dated but is believed to have been done around 1675. It may be an illustration of a whale that was stranded on the north German coast, then part of the Swedish empire. The painting is an interesting example of anamorphosis. |
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