Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9385
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Gunnel fish
Date
ca.1685-1686
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 36mm
width (painting): 107mm
width (painting): 107mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Side view of the Gunnel, Pholis gunnellus. Reversed image [and therefore either an original illustration for, or copy of the original from] De Historia Piscium, by Francis Willughby and John Ray (Oxford, 1686) plate 39 figure 3, where it is styled the Butterfish, Gunnellus Cornubiensium. Inscribed above: “a gunnel”. Not signed.
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