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Image: A Fish out of Water

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A Fish out of Water

1876
19th century
238 x 228 mm (9.4 x 9 in.)

Anonymous,

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Wood engraving on wove paper
Edition: Front cover illustration for “The Illustrated Christian Weekly” (New York: American Tract Society) vol. 6, no. 13, Saturday 25 March 1876; publication editor Lyman Abbott; in DAC Collection with complete issue as image context, with related text below image
Marks: No signature in block; printed below image: “A FISH OUT OF WATER”
Marks: Watermark: No watermark
Credit Line: Weedon Endowment funds, 2001
Accession Number: 2001.14.15

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This object has the following keywords:
  • American Studies
  • animals - This section can use more hierarchical (quasi-Linnaean) refinement in future; extant terms were assembled into a fairly flat and slightly redundant structure to expedite conversion.
  • architecture - Art or science of designing and building structures, especially habitable structures, in accordance with principles determined by aesthetic and practical or material considerations. Refers also to the structures created. [November 1994 related term added. October 1990 alternate term added.]
  • British Museum
  • fish
  • labor - Usage in the sense of physical work
  • museums - Use for buildings, groups of buildings, or spaces within buildings where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artifacts are housed and displayed. [March 1993 related terms added. April 1991 related te
  • natural history - Originally the systematic study of all natural objects and beings, including the modern sciences of zoology, botany, and minerology; now restricted to the study of these things from a popular or amateur rather than a strictly scientific perspective. [February 1995 related term added. May 1994 descriptor added.]
  • Nature - Use for the concept of the physical world, including the forces at work in it and the nonhuman life inhabiting it, perceived by human beings as separate and independent from themselves, their activities, and civilization. For aggregates of physical things, conditions, and influences surrounding and affecting given organisms or communities of organisms at any time, use "environments (object groupings)." For the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their habitat, use "ecology." [April 1990 descriptor added.]
  • religions
  • science - Use for the group of studies or branches of knowledge concerned with facts and phenomena of the observable or quantifiable world, systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws. [April 1996 lead-in terms added; scope note added; related term added. July 1993 descriptor moved. January 1991 alternate term added.]
  • sharks
  • water

Dimensions
  • image Dimensions: 238 x 228 mm (9.4 x 9 in.)

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