Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10620
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Two marine studies
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 an Australian fish and seahorse. Figure 1 ‘Cyprinaceous Labrus’, the Crimsonband Wrasse (Notolabrus gymnogenis); Figure 2 ‘The Hippocanthus or Sea-Horse’, White's Seahorse (Hippocampus whitei).
Plate 50 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states that the fish was about six inches in length but that: “From the bad condition of the specimen it was not possible to make so accurate an examination of its characters...”
The plate is inscribed: “1. Cyprinaceous Labrus. 2. The Hippocanthus or Sea-Horse. Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by I.Debrett.”
“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 50 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states that the fish was about six inches in length but that: “From the bad condition of the specimen it was not possible to make so accurate an examination of its characters...”
The plate is inscribed: “1. Cyprinaceous Labrus. 2. The Hippocanthus or Sea-Horse. Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by I.Debrett.”
“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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