- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 39 Box D210
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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., and Date supplied by cataloger.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sailors, British, Sharks, and Lawyers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sailors exhibiting a shark!! [art original]
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