Description

Uncolored etching of the Biblical story of Jonah cast into the stormy sea and swallowed by a whale. The crewmembers are depicted as being in the midst of throwing Jonah off the boat in order to stop the storm from destroying their ship. A monstrous whale with its mouth wide open is waiting for Jonah to fall. Five men on a cliff in the right foreground watch the scene in shock. The print was made as a cheap alternative for the real painting by Nicolas and Gasper Poussin at the Buckingham Palace (originally known as the Buckingham House).

Type

graphite

Location

recto, bottom right

Text

P4

Type

graphite

Location

verso, bottom left

Text

62462

Type

ink

Location

verso, bottom left

Text

P9 IX 73

Type

graphite

Location

verso, bottom right

Text

JB-P4