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                                 Image number: RS.9876
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            ‘Le Brosme’ [Torsk]
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                                1772
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Peter Ascanius (1723 - 1803, Norwegian) , Zoologist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                25444
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (print): 233mm
width (print): 374mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 374mm
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                                Marine zoological study showing a side view of the Torsk fish (here termed Gadus brosme, accepted taxonomy Brosme brosme). Plate 17 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d’histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right  “Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. XVII.” 
Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755.
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