Fishermen fishing for Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus. On a sailboat by moonlight on a cloudy night with large fishing nets. La peche du hareng. Handcoloured steel engraving by Charles Beyer after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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