Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9387
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Butterflyfish
Date
13 April 1763
Creator
George Edwards (1694 - 1773, British) , Ornithologist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 240mm
width (painting): 297mm
width (painting): 297mm
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
Plate 9 from the paper “An account of a fish from Batavia, called Jaculator...” by John Albert Schlosser, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.54 (1764) pp.89-91.
Plate 9 from the paper “An account of a fish from Batavia, called Jaculator...” by John Albert Schlosser, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.54 (1764) pp.89-91.