Lose their Compass, their ships slips between the teeth of a fish unknown in this part of the world

Lose their Compass, their ships slips between the teeth of a fish unknown in this part of the world

Thomas Rowlandson, Thomas Tegg

1809 - 1811 Print

59.533.1394(8)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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