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Jaws
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Jaws

Saga Universal Pictures

When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.

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Moby Dick and the white sperm whale

Square-headed sperm whales, braided harpoons, whaleboats, teeth scratched with a jackknife. The designs draw on the Pequod's inventory exactly as Melville describes it: bulwarks bristling with sperm whale teeth, a tiller carved from a jawbone, the gold doubloon nailed to the mainmast, Queequeg's coffin turned into a life-buoy. And, from the far end of the family tree, Jonah going head first into a pair of open jaws.

Charts, Knots and Mutinies

Portolan charts on vellum, cut across by sheaves of rhumb lines, with the fleur-de-lis pinned to the north and a cross marking the east. Octants and sextants in ebony and brass: graduated limb, vernier, mirror on the axis and smoked glass shades swung down across the path of the light. And the vocabulary of the fo’c’sle: square two-colour flags, knotted rope, anchors, swallows, a pig and a cockerel, and HOLD FAST spread across eight knuckles.

Forms of Nature

Millimetre-wide radiolarians turned into rose windows, siphonophores hanging like chandeliers, jellyfish trailing golden filaments, diatoms, lichens, orchids, bats and antelopes arranged by symmetry on black. Birds at life size and caught mid-violence, the flamingo bent into a U because there was no other way to fit it on the sheet. And a whole metamorphosis in a single print: the plant, the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis, the adult — plus a pinktoe tarantula eating a hummingbird.

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