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Image number: RS.9999
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‘The Greater Cat-Fish’
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
Marine zoological studies of a specimen of catshark or dogfish from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, showing dark bands or stripes. Identified by some authors as the Puffadder shyshark Haploblepharus edwardsii . Two views of the adult, one of a juvenile and a view of the shark emerging from a egg case, or ‘mermaid’s purse’.
Plate 289 from chapter 79 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 creature within the text: “These fishes were brought from the Cape of Good Hope, and are now preserved in spirits of wine in the collection of Dr.John Fothergill. It is the Catulus major vulgaris of Willughby...”
The plate is inscribed: “Catullus major vulgaris. The figures were all drawn and Etched on the plate from nature of the bignes of life by George Edwards. June the first; AD 1758.”
Plate 289 from chapter 79 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 creature within the text: “These fishes were brought from the Cape of Good Hope, and are now preserved in spirits of wine in the collection of Dr.John Fothergill. It is the Catulus major vulgaris of Willughby...”
The plate is inscribed: “Catullus major vulgaris. The figures were all drawn and Etched on the plate from nature of the bignes of life by George Edwards. June the first; AD 1758.”
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