Jonah Cast Into the Sea

Object summary

Title: Jonah Cast Into the Sea
Object ID: AF-JX-0122A
Date made: 1839
Place made: United Kingdom, Greater London, London
Maker: Fletcher, Alexander; unknown
Publisher: Virtue & Co.
Object type: Engraving
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
On view: No

Description

Black and white engraving of Jonah falling headfirst from a boat into the trough of a wave. The whale is visible in the bottom right corner. The text atop reads "Jonah Cast Into the Sea. Jonah I. ver.15." and the text below is a verse: "When Jonah sank into the Sea,/ The God whose Preacher he must be;/ Prepared a fish his life to save;/ Beneath the deep and stormy wave".