A beached basking shark lying next to a fishing trawler. Etching.

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41687i
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Two fishermen sitting on deck of the trawler look on and a man collecting fish into a basket stands next to the shark

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 19.3 x 26.8 cm

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The squalus maximus or basking shark, caught off Brighton, Novr. 3. 1812

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Wellcome Collection 41687i

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