Butterflyfish
Date
1764
Creator
George Edwards (1694 - 1773, British) , Naturalist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p89
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 300mm
width (paper): 242mm
width (paper): 242mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Side view of a variety of longnose butterflyfish (possibly Chelmon rostratus, although this specimen is not banded). Inscribed: 'After nature of the Size of Life. G. Edwards Delin: April 13 1764 in the 71st year of his age.' It was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 54 (1764), tab. 9.
Transcription
at the bottom: After nature of the size of Life. G. Edwards delin.: April 13, 1764, in the 71st year of his age.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
John Albert Schlosser, 'A fish from Batavia called Jaculator', Phil. Trans., 54 (1764), pp. 89-91, tab. 9.
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