Dear all, And now for something completely different (Monty Python): Those of you interested in whaling art and iconography will find several extremely unusual historic images in the following English article just published in a peer-reviewed Spanish-Basque yearbook, issued by the very active maritime museum in San Sebastián: Klaus Barthelmess: Basque whaling in pictures, 16th - 18th century. In: Itsas memoria. Revista de Estudios Marítimos del País Vasco, 6, 2009 [published 2010], pp. 643-667. Online at: http://um.gipuzkoakultura.net/itsasmemoria6/643-668_barthelmess.pdf Right whale researchers will i.a. find the earliest image of an articulated right whale skeleton (1658) and the earliest realistic images of this species' morphology (1740) in PRINT (there are two older drawings). Enjoy Klaus Barthelmess barthval at t-online.de