Description:
Part of portfolio of 26 lithographs and accompanying book by Lawrance Thompson.
Text from accompanying book by Lawrance Thompson, 3: The Whiteness of the Whale:

Aside from those
more obvious considerations
touching Moby Dick,
which could not but occasionally awaken
in any man's soul
some alarm,
there was another thought,
or rather vague nameless horror concerning him,
which at times by its intensity
completely overpowered all the rest;
and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it,
that I almost despair of putting it in a
comprehensive form.
It was the whiteness
of the whale
that above all things
appalled me.

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