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    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
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    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.
    Related fellows
    Francis Willughby (1635 - 1672, British) , Naturalist
    John Ray (1627 - 1705, British) , Naturalist
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