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Dolphins

Images

  • Bacchus captured by sailors transforms them into dolphins. Engraving by J. Matham after D. Vinckeboons..
  • Galatea riding a scallop shell chariot over the seas accompanied by Neptune, nymphs and cherubs, symbolising the element water. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
  • A blunt headed cachalot, a gibbous cachalot, a porpoise and a dolphin. Etching by J Scott, ca 1812, after S Edwards.
  • A standing skeleton of a woman with a dolphin. Engraving by W. Cheselden, 1733.
  • Venus riding a scallop shell chariot over the seas accompanied by Neptune, nymphs and cherubs, symbolising the element water. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
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Catalogue

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    A common whale, a dolphin and a porpoise. Coloured engraving by P Dixon, ca 1824.

    | Date: 1824 | Reference: 39932i
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    Notes on a cetaceous animal stranded on the north-east coast of Ireland ; On the size of the red corpuscles of the blood of the great anteater (Myrmecophaga jubata) / by George Gulliver.

    Gulliver, George, 1804-1882. | Date: [1854]
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    A vessel (olpe) for containing wine or oil, painted with the profile of a woman and a dolphin. Engraving, 17--.

    | Date: [1787] | Reference: 2498882i
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    Bacchus captured by sailors transforms them into dolphins. Engraving by J. Matham after D. Vinckeboons..

    Vinckeboons, David, 1576-1629. | Date: [1616] | Reference: 32250i
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    Guide to the whales, porpoises, and dolphins (order cetacea) : exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W / [drawn up by R. Lydekker].

    Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. | Date: 1909
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