Malabar Gallery

Malabar thryssa, Bloch's gizzard shad

Malabar thryssa, Thryssa malabarica 146, Bloch's gizzard shad, Nematalosa nasus 147, French fishermen fishing for sardines and anchovies using lamps and special nets called rissoles. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon. Date:

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History of the Missions, 1863. Wedding in India, 19th c

HENRION, Mathieu-Richard-Auguste, Baron of (1805 - 1862). General history of the missions from the thirteenth century to the present day. 1863. HENRION, Mathieu-Richard-Auguste, Baron of (1805 - 1862). Wedding Procession in the region of Malabar, India. 1847 French original work. Spanish translation published in Barcelona. Etching. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Barcelona University Library

© J. Bedmar/Iberfoto/Mary Evans

Pink swamp heath, Sprengelia incarnata

Pink swamp heath, Sprengelia incarnata, Sprengelia carnicina. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration engraved by Stanghi, drawn and directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century

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