Whale Collection

Sperm Whale Skeleton
The skeleton of a sperm whale

Jonah Released by Whale
Jonah is released by the Whale

WHALE C1870

Saint Brendans Voyage
During his voyage to the promised land of saints, Brendan and his companions celebrate mass on the back of a good-natured whale

Physeter macrocephalus, Sperm whale tooth
Sperm whale tooth

Riding a killer whale
A man with a cowboy hat rides a killer whale. Date: 1960s

Cirripedia or barnacles
Goose barnacle, Lepas anatifera 1, 2, Conchoderma auritum 3, buoy barnacle, Lepas fascicularis 4, Arcoscalpellum michelottianum 5, 6, Arcoscalpellum vitreum 7, 8, humpback whale barnacle

Saint Brendan / Whale
SAINT BRENDAN Irish religious and traveller who starred in a popular legend in which he encountered a giant whale Date: 484 - 577

20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne - title page
The title page of 20, 000 LIEUES SOUS LES MERS (20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea), showing an array of marine life. Date: First published 1870

Stuart Stammwitz working on blue whale model, 1938, The Natu
Stuart Stammwitz is shown here working on the whales eye, before the model was painted

Dr. Merryweathers Tempest Prognosticator
Featured in the Great Exhibition of 1851, Dr. Merryweather of Whitbys Tempest Prognosticator was designed to warn of approaching storms

Alexanders Diving Bell
Alexander the Great, king of Greece, is said to have used a diving vessel for seeing underwater

Book cover design, The Cloud King: or up in the air & down in the sea, by W Stephens Hayward, London: Darton and Hodge, 1866. Showing a balloon attached to a whale. 1866

Norway - Hammerfest - Blue Whale
Hammerfest - a city and municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. A huge Blue Whale has been caught and brough ashore. The whaling crew responsible stand in front of their magnificent catch. Date: 1902

Rendering Whale Oil
Rendering whale oil in Holland

Sperm Whale from 1868
A sperm whale attacked

A RIGHT WHALE
A right whale

Moby Dick himself takes shape: The monstrous leviathan, with whom Ahab and the whalers waged a feud to the death, is being constructed in Fishguard Harbour

Sperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus (vulnerable)
Sperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus (Physeter polycyphus). Vulnerable. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836

Sailor with pet bear on Whale Island Royal Navy

Dead polar bear on a whaling boat in Greenland - Victorian period

Polar bear cub on a whaling boat in Greenland - Victorian period

On board a whaling ship near Greenland - Victorian period

Whale bone, Whaling ship, Greenland

A whaling ship near Greenland - Victorian period

Greenland Inuits on board a whaling ship - Victorian period

A beached whale, UK, Victorian period

Portsmouth Whale Island Naval Barracks early 1900s

Dundee Whaler's Harbour early 1900s

Whalebones at Teignmouth, Devon - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Rare CGT Gerrer agent's calendar showing the ships of the line including the Ile de France. 9 x 14 inches

Dead Whale + sea birds Date: 1925

Cartoon: At Northward Ho!
Cartoon by Laurie Tayler showing the challenges of playing an arctic round of golf. Date: circa 1924

Rorqual Whale captured in the River Dart, Devon 1856
Pike-headed rorqual whale being attacked by a local cottager on the north shore of Millbay Creek, River Dart. The whale had beached itself when the tide fell

The phrase Vive la France formed by British sailors to welcome their French counterparts at Whale Island in 1905. Following the Entente Cordiale agreement of 1904

NEWFOUNDLAND WHALING
Whaling in Newfoundland. Date: 1930s

BEACHED WHALES
Whaling in Norway. Dead whales are lined along the beaches. Whale meat, fat and other parts are sent to market and used for a great number of commodities, including perfume Date: 1930s

Douglas EA-3B Skywarrior 146454 Killer Whale
United States Navy - Douglas EA-3B Skywarrior 146454 Killer Whale (MSN 12406, call-sign 004'), of VQ-2, at the Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 20 July 1991. Date: 1991

WW1 - Whales mistaken for submarines
The bodies of hundreds of whales, sharks, and other large fish, mistaken for submarines in the zealous hunt for German raiders, now lie strewn along the Atlantic coast

The Jaws of the Great White Whale: Part of a Model of "Moby Dick"at the London Zo
The Jaws of the Great White Whale: Part of a Model of " Moby Dick" at the London Zoo. Date: 1955

Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron works and flax spinning. Workers seated at grinding wheels in a cutlery factory in Sheffied 58

Chukchi man in armour made of wood and bone
Chukchi man in armour made of wood, whale bone, iron hoops and seal sinews covered with leather. (Chukotka region, Russia). HIs wife and son beside him

Sperm whale being hunted by whalers, 19th century
Sperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus, being harpooned by whalers, 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by James Stewart from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of

Sowerbys beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens (Physeter bidens, two-toothed cachalot). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Bowhead whale and cachelot
Whalers harpooning a bowhead whale a, Balaena mysticetus, and cachelot or pot whale b, Physeter macrocephalus. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History (Naturgeschichte)

Fin whale (endangered) and bowhead whale
Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus (endangered) and bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals

Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, being hunted by whalers with harpoons. Engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire

Rorqual or fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus. Endangered. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire

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