Sailors exhibiting a shark!! [art original]

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Title: Sailors exhibiting a shark!! [art original]
Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1800]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A gathering of countrymen, lawyers, and sailors stare with shock and consternation at the carcass of a shark laying on a table before them. A countryman begins the dialogue with an exclamation, "Dang it if I ever saw such a thing in my life, why it would swallow a man alive!" while an attorney continues with a question, "Neighbor Stump says very true, I never saw anything like it in the whole course of my practice as a country attorney. Pray my friend what do you call it?" A sailor smugly jests, "Why it is a shark d'ye see according to the lubbers lingo on shore, but we gemmen in his Majesty's service call him a sea lawyer!!!
Description: Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image.
Artist's signature in black ink below image.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Provenance: Purchased from Abbott and Holder, 24 May 1994.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 23.7 x 34 cm, on sheet 27.4 x 35 cm
Language: English

Genre: Humorous pictures
Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Graphite drawings British 19th century
Ink drawings British 19th century
Material: graphite pencil with ink border ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Sailors
British
Sharks
Lawyers
Subjects: Sailors > British
Sharks
Lawyers
England > 1800
British > 19th century

Access: Public
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Citation: G.M. Woodward, Sailors Exhibiting a Shark!!. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.