Atlantic bluefin tuna
Date
1832
Creator
François Jacques Dequevauviller (1783 - 1848, French) , Engraver
After
Jean-Charles Werner (1798 - 1856, French) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
RCN 34834
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 235mm
width (print): 310mm
width (print): 310mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine zoological study of the Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus (here styled Thynnus vulgaris) a fish native to the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Side view with a line detail of the fish’s tail from above.
Plate 210 from the book Histoire naturelles des poisons…tome 1-21…by Georges Cuvier and Achille Valenciennes (Paris, F.G. Levrault, 1828-1849).
Inscribed below ‘THON commun. THYNNUS vulgaris. n.’ and attributed ‘Werner del. Impe. de Langlois. Dequevauviller 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.
Plate 210 from the book Histoire naturelles des poisons…tome 1-21…by Georges Cuvier and Achille Valenciennes (Paris, F.G. Levrault, 1828-1849).
Inscribed below ‘THON commun. THYNNUS vulgaris. n.’ and attributed ‘Werner del. Impe. de Langlois. Dequevauviller 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.
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