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    Image number: RS.9928
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    ‘Blepsias ventricosus’ [Red Irish Lord fish]

    Date
    1829
    Creator
    Friedrich Guimpel (1774 - 1839, German) , Engraver
    After
    E. Bommer, Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    38407
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 229mm
    width (print): 375mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Marine zoological study of the Red Irish Lord fish (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus) , native to the north Pacific ocean.

    Plate 13 from the book Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten wahrend des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt..., by Friedrich Eschscholtz (Berlin, 1829). Inscribed “1/2 Blepsias ventricosus E. Bommer del. Prof. F. Guimpel sc.”

    Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1793-1831) Livonian physician, botanist and zoologist, was naturalist aboard two expeditions led by Otto von Kotzebue (1787-1846). The Rurik expedition 1815-1818 and the Predpriaetie 1823-1826 both circumnavigated the world and collected scientific specimens. These are from the second expedition.
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