[ID: two simple paintings of whales on old yellowed paper, by Captain Valentine Barnard, c.1810 [sou
[ID: two simple paintings of whales on old yellowed paper, by Captain Valentine Barnard, c.1810 [source]. the whales are painted an uneven black, with little white eyes, stubby round flippers, wobbly lines for baleen or teeth and red spurting from their blow holes. the top picture represents a right or a bowhead whale and the bottom is a sperm whale. in faint pencil underneath the second is written ‘drawn by Capt Bernard’. end ID] -- source link
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