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This document discusses various artistic representations of whales throughout history, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, and more. It references works such as Turner's famous painting "Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth" as well as images from Moby Dick in Pictures and scrimshaw. The document also discusses the challenges of depicting whales on a two-dimensional surface and capturing their "true form".

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The pictorial chapters
The pictorial chapters
The Pictorial Chapters Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales and the True pictures of Whaling Scenes Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars.
MATT KISH, MOBY-DICK IN PICTURES: ONE DRAWING FOR EVERY PAGE [2009 - 2011] http://www.spudd64.com/
The pictorial chapters
The pictorial chapters
Turner: Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbours Mouth, 1842 A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted. Yet there was a sort of indefinite, half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it (p13)
Ekphrasis the verbal representation of visual representation James Heffernan, Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (1993) p.7
The pictorial chapters
The pictorial chapters
The pictorial chapters
The pictorial chapters
The pictorial chapters
Goldsmiths Animated Nature (1876)
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Hogarth, Perseus Descending (1730)
Ambroise Louis Garneray (17831857), "Peche de la Baleine and Peche du Cachalot
Scrimshaw
The pictorial chapters
I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman. the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.
The pictorial chapters
Jackson Pollock, Blue (Moby Dick) c. 1943

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The pictorial chapters

  • 3. The Pictorial Chapters Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales and the True pictures of Whaling Scenes Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars.
  • 4. MATT KISH, MOBY-DICK IN PICTURES: ONE DRAWING FOR EVERY PAGE [2009 - 2011] http://www.spudd64.com/
  • 7. Turner: Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbours Mouth, 1842 A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted. Yet there was a sort of indefinite, half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it (p13)
  • 8. Ekphrasis the verbal representation of visual representation James Heffernan, Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (1993) p.7
  • 17. Ambroise Louis Garneray (17831857), "Peche de la Baleine and Peche du Cachalot
  • 20. I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman. the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.
  • 22. Jackson Pollock, Blue (Moby Dick) c. 1943