Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13064

    Angler

    Date
    1668
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN32806
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 342mm
    width (print): 210mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Marine zoological study of the Angler, or Monkfish Lophius piscatorius (here styled Rana piscatrix). The fish is shown from above.

    Plate from Onomasticon zoicon, plerorumque animalum differentias & nomina propria…., by Walter Charleton, (London, James Allestry, 1668), pp.200/201. The plate is inscribed above: ‘Figura 1ma: pag 201 RANA PISCATRIX The Toad-Fish or Fishing Frogg.’

    Walter Charleton (1620-1707), British physician and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1661.

    Associated place
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