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Jonah and the Whale
by
Pieter Lastman
[1621]
Museum Kunstpalast
Düsseldorf
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In his "Fischbuch" (1563, f.89r), Conrad Gesner recapitulates on the cetaceans distinguished by Olaus Magnus (around 1550). Here: the #baleen #whale.
"It is said to be quite large, with horns and a fiery face, quite hideous" and to have a "long beard".
#melvillemonday #oceanspast
Happy #MelvilleMonday, Shipmates!
“Moby Dick” (1988)
by Claus Hoie
Source: Unpainted to the Last by Elizabeth A. Schultz
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Cover Art
for Table Talk Magazine
by
Lisel Jane Ashlock
Image based on Herman Melville's Moby Dyck
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Herman Melville
'Benito Cereno'
Edward McKnight Kauffer
Illustrations [1926]
#illustrationart
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'Benito Cereno'
Herman Melville
[J. L. Borges]
'Benito Cereno' continues to generate argument.There are those who judge it the masterpiece of Melville and one of the masterpieces of literature.There are those who consider it a mistake or a series of mistakes.
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Moby Dick Character Designs
by
Aaron Blaise
[Animation Feature Film Director, Animator, Concept Artist & Wildlife Artist]
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Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐋
'Moby Dick'
Book cover _ 2017
by Charles Manalt
[Marseille, France]
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For Hate's Sake
by
Justin Gerard Illustration
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'Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.'
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[Moby Dick]
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'Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world,'
[Moby Dick]
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'Job'
by Ninetta Sombart
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Moby Dick persues the Pequod
by Antony Carlyon
Concept Artist & Graphic Designer
[via @ArtStationHQ]
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For #MelvilleMonday 1820 edition of An Account of Arctic Regions by William Scoresby, a Whitby Whaler
AKA Captain Sleet in #MobyDick