Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10120
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Spotted scat
Date
1770
Creator
F. de Bakker (Dutch) , Engraver
After
Gerrit Dadelbeek (1731 - 1781, Dutch) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X313
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 298mm
width (print): 473mm
width (print): 473mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine biological study of the spotted scat fish, here styled Chaetodonte argo now Scatophagus argus, native to the Indo-Pacific region including the seas around New Guinea. Side view with a detail of the head of a second specimen, showing red colouration, lower right.
Plate from the monograph Brief van Pieter Boddaert...Behelzende eene naauwkeurige Beschrijving der Amboinsche haagdis...van den Gevlakten klipvisch... (Amsterdam 1770). Inscribed: “II Br. G. Dadelbeek pinxit. F.de Bakker fecit.”
Pieter Boedaert (1730 or 1733-1795) was a Dutch physician and naturalist.
Plate from the monograph Brief van Pieter Boddaert...Behelzende eene naauwkeurige Beschrijving der Amboinsche haagdis...van den Gevlakten klipvisch... (Amsterdam 1770). Inscribed: “II Br. G. Dadelbeek pinxit. F.de Bakker fecit.”
Pieter Boedaert (1730 or 1733-1795) was a Dutch physician and naturalist.
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