Thursday 17 October 2024

Incipient Sharknado 1899 - by Winslow Homer


This famous painting by Winslow Homer from 1899, has commonly been mistitled "The Gulf Steam", when it is clearly intended to be the immediate precursor to the approaching water-spout (back, right) sucking-up the killer sharks (in the foreground), together with the boat and its oarsman - before spreading the giant carnivores liberally onshore, whence havoc ensues. 

I therefore propose Homer's picture should, correctly, be re-named Incipient Sharknado 1899.  



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