Semicircle angelfish

    Date
    1831
    Creator
    Martin Schmeltz, Engraver
    After
    Jean-Charles Werner (1798 - 1856, French) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN 34834
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 235mm
    width (print): 310mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ichthyology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Marine zoological study of the Semicircle angelfish Pomacanthus semicirculatus
    (here styled Holacanthus semicirculatus) a fish native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Side view with a line detail of the fish’s scales.

    Plate 183 from the book Histoire naturelles des poisons…tome 1-21…by Georges Cuvier and Achille Valenciennes (Paris, F.G. Levrault, 1828-1849).

    Inscribed below ‘HOLACANTHE à demi-cercles. HOLACANTHUS semicirculatus. n.’ and attributed ‘Werner del. Impe. de Langlois. Schmeltz sculp.’

    Georges Cuvier (1773-1838), Baron Cuvier, French zoologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1806.

    Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865), French zoologist.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > France
    Credit
    ©The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.12244
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