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Maarten van Heemskerck

Jonah Cast Out by the Whale onto the Shore of Nineveh

1566
Pen and brown ink over indications in black chalk, within brown ink framing lines; indented for transfer

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The artist’s rendering of a fish is neither a shark nor a whale, but rather a fictional combination of the two, a product of the artist’s knowledge of ornamental designs and his own imagination.

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