A Stranded Whale on the Beach Between Zandvoort and Wijk aan Zee
Jacobus Luberti Augustini|Hendrik Spilman
1762 · Etching · Drawings and Prints
The blustery conditions depicted in this etching contrast with the stillness of the adult male sperm whale, already dead for some time before it washed up on the shore near Haarlem in February 1762. Nearby, two women sell fish and an artist sketches; behind the whale stands a collection box to benefit the poor.
- Artist
- Jacobus Luberti Augustini|Hendrik Spilman
- Date
- 1762
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Clifford A. Furst, by exchange, 1974