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A beached basking shark lying next to a fishing trawler. Etching.
Wellcome Collection

A beached basking shark lying next to a fishing trawler. Etching.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The squalus maximus or basking shark, caught off Brighton, Novr. 3. 1812

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