Seizing Our Captain

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A bird is soaring with a man caught in its talons as a group of people them fly away

Seizing our captain [...] in one of her claws, flew with him above a mile high.

Artist

Name:: Doré, Gustave
Dates:: 1832-1883
Country:: France

Illustration

Subjects:: Animals, Narratives
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Pannemaker, Adolphe François
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Wunderbare Reisen ... von Münchhausen
Authors:: Bürger, Gottfried August; Raspe, Rudolf Erich
Publisher:: Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, n.d. [1923?]
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A bird looking like a large vulture is soaring with a man caught in its talons as a group of people and a dismayed hatchling watch them fly away from the seashore.

The caption reads in the German edition: … Packte in eine seiner Klauen unsern Kapitän, flog eine Meile weit mit ihm in die Höhe.

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