Technique mixte sur papier. « From this height the whale was now seen some mile or so ahead, at every roll of the sea revealing his high sparkling hump, and regularly jetting his silent spout into the air. To the credulous mariners it seemed the same silent spout they had so long ago beheld in the moonlit Atlantic and Indian Oceans » (Moby Dick; or, The Whale, chap. 133). Encadré. 125 x 70 cm.