Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11821

    Goldfish

    Date
    1762
    Creator
    J Rhodius (Dutch) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 405mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Studies of freshwater goldfish. Figures 1-2 single and grouped studies of the fish. Figure 3 A-D magnified fish-scales. Figures 4-9 side views of individual fish, showing a variety of colours and markings at two years of age.

    Plate 9 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Tom. II. Liber II, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1765). The plate is inscribed above ‘TAB.IX’ and below ‘J..Rhodius del. et ad viv. pinxit. C.V.Noorde Sculp. 1762. N.B. De GOUDE-VISJES Fig.IV-IX waaren 2 Jaaren oud.’

    Job Baster (1711-1775) Dutch physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.
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