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Image number: RS.9993
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‘The Sea-Bat; and the Pyed Acarauna’
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. Figures 1-3 are three views of the Longnose batfish, Ogcocephalus corniger. Figures 4-5 are referred to as an Acarauna, an unidentified variety of surgeonfish, with a detail of a scale.
Plate 283 from chapter 73 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: “The Sea-bat appeared to me, as preserved in spirits, all over of a dark brown or dusky colour...The Sea-bat was lent to me by Mr. Joseph Ames; the other I have in my small collection. They are both inhabitants of the coasts of Brasil. And the Islands called the West Indies.”
The plate is inscribed: “Brasilian Fishes Etched from nature of the Size of Life. G. Edwards Delin; Sculp: etc A.D. 1755.”
Plate 283 from chapter 73 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: “The Sea-bat appeared to me, as preserved in spirits, all over of a dark brown or dusky colour...The Sea-bat was lent to me by Mr. Joseph Ames; the other I have in my small collection. They are both inhabitants of the coasts of Brasil. And the Islands called the West Indies.”
The plate is inscribed: “Brasilian Fishes Etched from nature of the Size of Life. G. Edwards Delin; Sculp: etc A.D. 1755.”
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