‘Blue shark’
Date
c.1896
Creator - Organisation
Frederick Warne & Company, Publisher
After
Pierre Jacques Smit (1863 - 1960, Dutch) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
51310
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 165mm
width (print): 255mm
width (print): 255mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Underwater scene showing two specimens of blue shark (Prionace glauca) one pursuing a shoal of fish.
Plate facing p.522 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.5 (Frederick Warne, London 1896).
Signed lower right: ‘P J Smit’. Title appears below the image: ‘BLUE SHARK’.
Richard Lydekker (1849-1915) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894.
Plate facing p.522 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.5 (Frederick Warne, London 1896).
Signed lower right: ‘P J Smit’. Title appears below the image: ‘BLUE SHARK’.
Richard Lydekker (1849-1915) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894.
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