Technique mixte sur papier. « Like noiseless nautilus shells, their light prows sped through the sea; but only slowly they neared the foe. As they neared him, the ocean grew still more smooth; seemed drawing a carpet over its waves; seemed a noon-meadow, so serenely it spread » (Moby Dick; or, The Whale, chap. 133). Encadré. 140 x 70 cm.