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Image number: RS.9992
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‘The Spur-Fish; and the Indian Gattorugina’
Date
1755
Creator
George Edwards (1694 - 1773, British) , Ornithologist
Object type
Library reference
38029
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 288mm
width (print): 220mm
width (print): 220mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine zoological studies of two fishes.
Plate 282 from chapter 72 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The author describes the fishes within the text: “These fishes are here figured of their natural bigness...The larger fish I call the Spur-fish, from the two odd pectinated sharp-pointed bones or spurs on its upper and under sides...The lesser Fish I call Gattorugina Indica...The Spur-fish was lent to me by my friend Mr. Joseph Ames, who told me, it was collected by the late George Holmes, Esq; Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London; but no account could be had of its native place. The lesser Fish was the property of the late Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary to the Royal Society, who lent it me, and told me it was brought from the East Indies.”
The plate is inscribed: “Geo Edwards Delin: et Excud: AD 1755.”
Plate 282 from chapter 72 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The author describes the fishes within the text: “These fishes are here figured of their natural bigness...The larger fish I call the Spur-fish, from the two odd pectinated sharp-pointed bones or spurs on its upper and under sides...The lesser Fish I call Gattorugina Indica...The Spur-fish was lent to me by my friend Mr. Joseph Ames, who told me, it was collected by the late George Holmes, Esq; Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London; but no account could be had of its native place. The lesser Fish was the property of the late Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary to the Royal Society, who lent it me, and told me it was brought from the East Indies.”
The plate is inscribed: “Geo Edwards Delin: et Excud: AD 1755.”