17th century Dutch print of a beached whale emerges at Surrey auction

In 1602 the Dutch painter and printmaker Jan Saenredam made an engraving of a whale that had been washed ashore near the town of Beverwijk.

The site about 20km north-west of Amsterdam had attracted great attention – not just as a public c…

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