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Image number: RS.9998
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‘The Prickled Dog or Hound-Fish, with an Insect called the Walking-Stick’
Date
1758
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
Zoological studies of the Spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias. Figures 1-3 show lower, side and upper views of this member of the shark family. Below, as figure 4, is a side view of a stick insect.
Plate 288 from chapter 78 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 creatures within the text: “The original subjects, from which the figures on this plate were taken, were brought from the Cape of Good Hope in spirits of wine, and are now preserved in the cabinet of the worthy John Fothergill, M.D., of London.
The plate is inscribed: “1.2.3. Mustelus Spinax, Bellonii &c.. 4. An Insect called the Walking-stick all drawn immediately from life on the copper Plate, of their natural size by George Edwards, May 23 AD 1758.”
Plate 288 from chapter 78 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 creatures within the text: “The original subjects, from which the figures on this plate were taken, were brought from the Cape of Good Hope in spirits of wine, and are now preserved in the cabinet of the worthy John Fothergill, M.D., of London.
The plate is inscribed: “1.2.3. Mustelus Spinax, Bellonii &c.. 4. An Insect called the Walking-stick all drawn immediately from life on the copper Plate, of their natural size by George Edwards, May 23 AD 1758.”