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Poissons a) Le Requin (Squalus charcharias). b) Le Marteau (Squalus zygaena) c) La Scie (Squalus pristis )
Colored print depicting two scenes of sharks, stacked vertically;the print is made of two leaves of paper carefully joined together to form a center seam. Top scene shows a shark, hooked through the mouth, being pulled up to a ship by a pair of sailors turning a winch. Other sailors look on, watching. Lower scene depicts a carpenter shark (sawfish) and a hammerhead shark in a rocky cove, with a pitching, empty ship in the background and a sailor lying prone on his back on the rocks, atop a broken spar, in the foreground.
"IX" in top right corner. Title in lower margin.