Seamen in great distress eat one another details |
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| Image title: | Seamen in great distress eat one another | |
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| Source: | Burton, Robert: “Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy” (1685) | |
| Place shown: | none | |
| Keywords: | boats, people, storms, ships, fish, waves, food, colour | |
| Status: | public domain in the USA, out of copyright in Canada, hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes and no usage credit required | |
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These sailors have only a tattered sail on their mast, and are in a small lifeboat in a raging storm, with a sea inhabited by a strange giant fish. A sailor near the stern of the boat is about to be decapitated; another is eating a dismembered arm or leg. Cannibalism in the workplace. |
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