Jacob Philipp Hackert, German
“Ahoy, Good Sir! I Have Traveled From Afar in Search of Rare and Valuable Treasure. In My Case, a Pair of Pants With a 50-Inch Inseam,” 1794
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here (Google translated, both NDB and ADB), here, and here, perhaps in addition to what's in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Italian Wikipedia page has more).
/// “Ahoy! Ere you sail off to Tahiti,
and desert your love child and your sweetie,
you must come back to shore
and scrub down this stone floor
to erase your defacing graffiti.”
/// The ship’s captain (who’s also the mast),
heard the figures ashore and, aghast,
saw his putative hosts
were, in fact, undead ghosts!
(Where they “stood” there were no shadows cast.)