Skate
Date
1802
Creator
Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769 - 1857, German) , Engraver
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height (print): 208mm
width (print): 255mm
width (print): 255mm
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Description
Marine biological studies of a species of skate (family Rajidae) claimed by the author as a new species from the Portuguese sea. The creature is an unidentified cartilaginous fish and is shown from above (figure 1) with a scheme of its front profile (figure 2).
Plate 1 from the book Ueber die sogenannten Seemause oder hornartigen fischeyer…by W.G. Tilesius (Leipzig, 1802).
Inscribed above: ‘Tab.I. Rajae nova species’. Inscribed below: ‘Auctor ad nat pinxit.
Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769-1857) German naturalist, draughtsman and engraver.
Plate 1 from the book Ueber die sogenannten Seemause oder hornartigen fischeyer…by W.G. Tilesius (Leipzig, 1802).
Inscribed above: ‘Tab.I. Rajae nova species’. Inscribed below: ‘Auctor ad nat pinxit.
Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769-1857) German naturalist, draughtsman and engraver.
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