Great White Shark Vintage Fish Print Benjamin Fawcett Old Picture 1990 CNHPF#83A

Description: Great White Shark Vintage 1990 Fish Print Benjamin Fawcett A colour print, rescued from a disbound book of Fish prints from 1990, with unrelated text on the reverse. Original printing date 1862, see text below. Suitable for framing, size is approx 8.5" x 5" or 22cm x 13cm printed edge to edge. This is a vintage print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text taken from the opposite page. Please note this cannot be supplied with the print due to being on the reverse side of the previous print. Any spelling errors are due to the OCR program used. Great White Shark WHITE SHARK, Carcharias carcharias (now also Great White Shark, White Pointer, Man-eater, White Death, Carcharodon carcharias). Colour printed wood engraving by Benjamin Fawcett, pl. 5 from Vol. 1 of J. Couch's A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 1862-65. The star of Peter Benchley's book and Steven Spielberg's filmJaws finds a place in Couch's book on British fish on the slightest of evidence, a vague report that 'several others have been seen in Mount's Bay, Cornwall - . . and one, which was seen by a gentleman who had often observed the White Shark in the West Indies, and was pronounced by him to be of the same species.' His pronouncement was probably inaccurate because there have been no reliable records of it appearing in British waters since. Despite the hysteria engendered by Jaws, however, shark attacks are rare. Indeed, perhaps no more than 50 people world wide are killed by sharks of all kinds in a year. As we kill about five million sharks annually who are the real aggressors?

Price: 3.49 GBP

Location: Dereham

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