Four Leviathan (from left to right):
FAR LEFT: Biblical, earliest mention in the Book of Job (ca. 5th cent. B.C.); engraving by Gustave Doré (1865)
LEFT-CENTER: Anglo-Saxon art and poetry, possible first mention in “The Whale,” a poem in Old English from the Exeter Book (ca. 10th cent. A.D.); stained-glass “Hell Mouth” or “Jaws of Hell” from the Bourges Cathedral (ca. 12th cent. A.D.)
RIGHT-CENTER: “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” by Herman Melville (1851); illustration by A. Burnham Shute (1892)
FAR RIGHT: The Leviathan of Parsontown, built by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1845); copperplate engraving (ca. 1860)