| Antique Print Shark Art - Natural History Print A beautiful illustration from a British Victorian natural history book. The quality of the illustrations is superb, some of the best of the period. Wonderful image of an Indo-Pacific Basking Shark at the bottom of the seabed. 'Although probably widely distributed within the tropics, this shark has hitherto been met with but locally. For many years the sole evidence of its existence rested upon a specimen, 15 feet long, brought ashore in Table Bay in April 1828. Forty years later, in 1868, Dr Percival Wright saw specimens which exceeded 50 feet in length.' (1894) |
