Moby Dick Public domain
Póster de Whalefall
Scrimshaw · Print on 189 gsm matte paper, unframed
Whalers · Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum record →
32.95 €
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Printed in the European Union, in the size you pick. No customs, no import charges. Plazos medidos contra la imprenta el 19 de agosto de 2026.
The other designs from Whalefall
3 designs to Whalefall, on the same póster and at the same price.
Printed on Enhanced Matte Paper Poster, 189 g/m².
The garment
- Model
- Enhanced Matte Paper Poster
- Composition
- Papel mate de museo, 10,3 mil de grosor y 94 % de opacidad, de origen japonés
- Gramaje
- 189 g/m²
- Printing
- Impresión digital. Se sirve sin marco
- Recommended care
- Enmarcar sin contacto directo con el cristal
Data from the Printful spec sheet (Enhanced Matte Paper Poster), read on 19 de agosto de 2026. The care advice is ours: the manufacturer does not publish the washing label.
Where it comes from: source, motifs and legal status
- Source
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851) + Jonás (Biblia)
- Motifs
- el cachalote · el arpón · el Pequod · Ahab · scrimshaw (grabado en hueso) · Jonás y la ballena
- Legal status
- Public domain. The design is ours; the material it starts from belongs to everyone
What this print is like
Matte paper of Japanese origin, 189 gsm and 94% opacity. Matte means it does not shine under a lamp and throws no reflection when you photograph it, and that 94% means nothing comes through: you see neither the back nor the wall behind. It is the only piece in the catalogue where the design goes on its own, with no seam, no pocket, no handle and no collar to cut it in half.
Read more about this póster
It comes unframed and in five sizes, from A4 at 21 × 29.7 cm up to 61 × 91 cm. The sizes are ordinary on purpose: you frame them with an off-the-shelf frame and there is nothing to order made to measure. Since it is not a garment, there is no colour to choose here: the paper is white and the only thing that changes between sizes is how much wall the drawing takes up.
If you frame it, keep the paper off the glass. A mount or a few spacer tabs leave an air gap, and that is what stops the ink from sticking to the glass after a few damp years. Rule of thumb for choosing a size: a print looks right from about one and a half times its diagonal, so the medium ones work for a hallway or above a desk and the big one needs a clear wall.
«Scrimshaw» is also on camiseta, 23.95 € · taza, 26.95 € · camiseta premium, 32.95 € · camiseta de mujer, 33.95 € · sudadera, 54.95 € · sudadera con capucha, 61.95 €
The drawing on «Scrimshaw»
A sperm whale tooth engraved with a needle point: the curved outline of the tooth, inside it the hatched scene of a whaler sailing through the waves, and the band of the root closing it off at the bottom. The object is the tooth, not the animal.
Where this drawing comes from
What is printed is the object, not the animal: a tooth with a scratched scene inside it. It is what a sailor made by hand across four years at sea with nothing else to do.
Scrimshaw is what whalers made out of sperm whale teeth and bones on voyages that lasted years, in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Melville gives it chapter LVII of «Moby-Dick». The shape of the tooth follows that of the pieces at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Nantucket Historical Association.
Sizes: measurements, where each one is made and what it costs
Measurements of the item in centimetres, as published by the factory itself.
| Size | Ancho | Alto | Made in | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18″×24″ | 45,7 | 61 | España | 62.95 € |
| 24″×36″ | 61 | 91,4 | España | 82.95 € |
| 8.27″×11.69″ | 21 | 29,7 | la UE | 32.95 € |
| 16″×20″ | 40,6 | 50,8 | España | 52.95 € |
| 12″×16″ | 30,5 | 40,6 | España | 42.95 € |
The larger formats 18″×24″, 24″×36″, 16″×20″, 12″×16″ cost more because they cost the printer more: we would rather say so here and stock them than not have them.
«Made in» comes from the warehouse Printful declares for that exact size, not from an estimate of ours.
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Appears in
- — Whalefall Película
- — Tiburón (Jaws) Saga
- — En mar abierto Película
- — Bajo la superficie Serie