感動（78）：《白鯨記 之道 》專題 (1，2023) ：《白鯨記 22 聖誕快樂》冬至湯圓(紅白)到There is a Land of Pure Delight《白鯨記 42 白鯨之白 》。Rockwell_Kent等(插)畫名家 ： Moby Dick or The Whale – Herman Melville (Chicago: Lakeside Press and New York: Random House, 1930), 哥川廣重 江戶名所之"白"。

感動（78）：《白鯨記  之道 》專題 (1，2023) ：《白鯨記 22   聖誕快樂》冬至湯圓(紅白)到There is a Land of Pure Delight《白鯨記 42   白鯨之白  》。Rockwell_Kent等(插)畫名家 ： Moby Dick or The Whale – Herman Melville (Chicago: Lakeside Press and New York: Random House, 1930), 哥川廣重  江戶名所之"白"。 

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Moby Dick attacking a whaling boat

• Moby Dick or The Whale – Herman Melville (Chicago: Lakeside Press and New York: Random House, 1930), pen, brush, and ink drawings (often inaccurately described as woodcuts);
  
  
  Moby Dick, as illustrated in a 1902 edition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_Kent

• Johnson, Fridolf. The Illustrations of Rockwell Kent: 231 examples from Books, Magazines, and Advertising Art. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.

One of Kent's exemplary pen-and-ink drawings from Moby Dick appears on a U.S. postage stamp issued as part of the 2001 commemorative panel celebrating American Illustration, with other artistic examples by Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, and Norman Rockwell.

There is a Land of Pure Delight (Varina)

“Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, 

Stand dressed in living green. 

So to the Jews old Canaan stood, 

While Jordan rolled between.”

At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from the bows.

 ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent within the year. Don’t forget your prayers, either. Mr. Starbuck,