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Image number: RS.10616
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Studies of two fishes
Date
1790
Creator
Sarah Stone (1760 - 1844, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
22426
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 292mm
width (print): 225mm
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine zoological study of two Australian fishes. Figure 1 ‘The Pungent Chaetadon’, the Old Wife (Enoplosus armatus); Figure 2 ‘Granulated Balistes’, the Rough Leatherjacket (Scobinichthys granulates).
Plate 39 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states of figure 1 that: “This appears to be a new and very elegant species...”
The plate is inscribed: “1 Pungent Chaetedon. 2 Granulated Balistes. London Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by I.Debrett.” With light pencil annotations ‘Enoplosus armatus’ and ‘papillosa Monacanthus’ below each.
“The Public may rely, with the most perfect confidence, on the care and accuracy with which the Drawings have been copied from nature, by Miss Stone, Mr.Catton, Mr.Nodder, and other artists; and the Editor flatters himself the Engravings are all executed with equal correctness, by, or under the immediate inspection of Mr.Milton. The Birds, &c. from which the drawings were taken are deposited in the Leverian Museum.”
Plate 39 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states of figure 1 that: “This appears to be a new and very elegant species...”
The plate is inscribed: “1 Pungent Chaetedon. 2 Granulated Balistes. London Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by I.Debrett.” With light pencil annotations ‘Enoplosus armatus’ and ‘papillosa Monacanthus’ below each.
“The Public may rely, with the most perfect confidence, on the care and accuracy with which the Drawings have been copied from nature, by Miss Stone, Mr.Catton, Mr.Nodder, and other artists; and the Editor flatters himself the Engravings are all executed with equal correctness, by, or under the immediate inspection of Mr.Milton. The Birds, &c. from which the drawings were taken are deposited in the Leverian Museum.”
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