I found this image by Tyler Jacobson while searching for an illustrator to do a presentation on. It looks like it might be another Moby Dick illustration. He tends to do a lot of fantasy stuff but he has a handful of nice illustrations like this one. What I like about this image is the simplified manner in which the story is told. The focus is on the man harpooning a whale while on top of it. The only details are in the man, his harpoon and the eye of the whale. The crashing waves, blood and clouds take up the majority of the image and make this guys feat of slaying the whale seem all the more heroic also due in part to the size of everything compared to the man.
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