English original
A wide scrimshaw-style engraving of a three-masted clipper ship under full sail battling towering storm waves, while a long coiled sea serpent rises from the sea beside it on the right. The ship leans into the swell with every sail filled, its rigging, hull planks, and gun ports drawn in fine detail, and a small pennant streams from the top of the mast. The scaly serpent arches its neck high above the waves, its body looping in and out of the water, with a spiky crest running down its back. Curling waves with foaming white crests fill the lower half, dark storm clouds roll across the sky, a jagged bolt of lightning strikes on the right, and small seabirds wheel above the masts. Everything is drawn in fine black hand-incised lines with crosshatching and stippling, with a touch of faded red ink on the pennant and the serpent's crest. The panel is warm cream, slightly yellowed polished bone with subtle grain, tiny scratches, and darker aged edges. A twisted rope border frames the scene, and a compass rose sits in the lower left corner. Antique 19th-century sailor folk art look, high detail. Wide landscape 16:9. No text, no letters, no signatures.
