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  Did North America's Longest Painting Inspire Moby-Dick?
 Herman Melville likely saw the panorama “Whaling Voyage,” which records the sinking of the whaler Essex, while staying in Boston in 1849.
 by  Allison C. Meier, Robert L. Carothers, John L. Marsh, Kevin J. Avery, Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, Henry F. Pommer  via  JSTOR Daily  on  June 20, 2018