Longhorn batfish
Date
1695-86
Creator
Henry Hunt (British) , Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p88
Material
Dimensions
height (Paper): 300mm
width (Paper): 185mm
width (Paper): 185mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Transcription
signed at the bottom, HNT
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
The description of 'Guacucia' in F. Willughby, Historia Piscium (London and Oxford, 1686), pp. 89-90, is taken from Georg Marcgraf and Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (Leiden and Amsterdam, 1648), p. 143, where there is a different figure of this fish.
Associated place