Peche du Souffleur dans le Canal de Zanzibar

Object summary

Title: Peche du Souffleur dans le Canal de Zanzibar
Object ID: AF-WF-0034
Date made: 1859
Place made: France
Painter: Garneray, Ambroise Louis
Engraver: Jazet
Object type: Engraving
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
On view: No

Description

Etching of a fishing scene. Sailors in Zanzibar are shown hunting bottlenose dolphins. A man straddles the back of a dolphin and hammers a spike into its blowhole.

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Garneray, Ambroise Louis

Painter

Jazet

Engraver