Illustrations of the ambergris bought by the Dutch East India Company, from Georg Eberhard Rumphius's D’amboinsche rariteitkamer (1705).
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.
Also appearing in the essay…
Ambergris Bought by the Dutch East India Company
Date
1705
From
D’amboinsche rariteitkamer
