Monster fish with ship fin. From the group: Terrors of the sea. From series two: The trials and tribulations of the first voyage

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Monster fish with ship fin. From the group: Terrors of the sea. From series two: The trials and tribulations of the first voyage

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'My brief was to make something about Colombus (sic), something that would appeal to a wide range of people and be understood without the use of words. After much hesitation and after reading a great many books, I decided the only way I could tackle the subject was by treating it as an unfolding story of the "first Voyage". The information for the pieces came from paintings, sculpture and ceramics of the period, but the most help came from the woodcuts in Oviedo's History of the Indies. T...

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1991

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Ann Verdcourt

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/243755

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Fish / Ships / fantasy / folklore / explorers / ceramic / ceramics / sculpture / works of art / firing / Dannevirke

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