A Stranded Whale on the Beach Between Zandvoort and Wijk aan Zee on 20 February, 1762

Hendrik Spilman Dutch
 After Jacobus Luberti Augustini Dutch

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 690

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.

A Stranded Whale on the Beach Between Zandvoort and Wijk aan Zee on 20 February, 1762, Hendrik Spilman (Dutch, Amsterdam 1721–1784 Haarlem), Etching

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