Featured on PDR in the essay Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale

What can visual art teach us about scent, stench, and the mysterious substance known as ambergris? Lizzie Marx follows a “whale-trail” across history to discover the olfactory paradoxes of the Dutch Golden Age.

Beached Whale at Beverwijk

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Date

1602


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Public Domain Worldwide

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