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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.

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

A vessel (olpe) for containing wine or oil, painted with the profile of a woman and a dolphin. Engraving, 17--.

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.

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].

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

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.

A vessel (olpe) for containing wine or oil, painted with the profile of a woman and a dolphin. Engraving, 17--.

Bacchus captured by sailors transforms them into dolphins. Engraving by J. Matham after D. Vinckeboons..

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].