Cornish gunnel
Date
1685-86
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p87
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 42mm
width (paper): 108mm
width (paper): 108mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing of a profile view of a Cornish gunnel, with a pencil inscription, 'gunell', above it.
Transcription
Above the fish, 'gunell'
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
The Royal Society financially supported the posthumous publication of Francis Willughby's Historia piscium (1686), which required textual supplement and additions by John Ray, Tancred Robinson and Martin Lister. This drawing was for the Cornish gunnel (tab. G8, fig. 3: Gunnellus Cornubiensium), found in the town of St Ives in Cornwall (p. 116).
Associated place