Two bits of art I would like to have the originals of

New paper by Adrian Shine and myself. A cultural exploration of aquatic monsters with an unexpected twist about eyewitness testimony.

Hoops, loops and eyewitness reliability: a history of biologically impossible aquatic monsters.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lKArabuHw...

What to know about the history of sea serpents with loops? Coming very soon.

Here is the great grand-daddy of all sea serpent attacking rowing boat images but perhaps not as much fun as the others.
From Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway

Here is another one

Here is another example. In fact one of my favourite pieces of sea monster art ever.

I'm a big fan of the "sea monster upsets people in rowing boat" art motif. Here is an example I just discovered.