Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10236
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    Flying fish with freshwater nests and cases

    Date
    1721
    Creator
    T. Cole (British) , Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    29715
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 264mm
    width (print): 213mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Zoological studies of three types of marine and freshwater specimens. Figure 1 a flying-fish “from the Royal Society”. Figure 2 nest of the ‘Tickleback’ eg stickleback, probably the freshwater fish Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus, the three-spined stickleback. Figure 3 four specimens of caddisfly cases.

    Plate 8 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). The figures are represented as being on three pieces of paper pinned to the darkened background of the plate. Inscribed “Plate VIII. T.Cole sculp.“

    Richard Bradley (1688-1732) English botanist and writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. Figure 1 on this plate is a specimen from the Royal Society’s Repository.
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