Cleveland Museum of Art
Jonah Cast Out by the Whale onto the Shore of Nineveh
Maarten van Heemskerck (Dutch, 1498–1574) · 1566
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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