Puffer Fish Gallery

Wood Grouse, 1833-39 (coloured engraving)

999735 Wood Grouse, 1833-39 (coloured engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A'Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle et des phA©nomA¨nes de la natureA, 1833-39, published by FA©lix Edouard GuA©rin-MA©neville
Auerhuhn, Bandwurm, Heuschrecke, Kugelfisch, Stahlstich, 19tes Jahrhundert, Illustration, Tiere, VA¶gel, Fische
TA©trarhynque, TA©tras, TA©trix, TA©trodons
Tetrao urogallus, Trypanorhyncha, Tetraodontidae); A© Purix Verlag Volker Christen; French, out of copyright

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Pisces, hand-colored lithograph, published in 1880

1) Pilot fish (Naucrates ducto), 2) Short-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus brevirostris), 3) Sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus), 4) Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), 5 Freshwater eel (Anguilla), 6) Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), 7) White-spotted puffer (Arothron hispidus), 8) Smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena), 9) Atlantic stargazer (Uranoscopus scaber), 10) Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus). Hand-colored lithograph from my archive, published in 1880

© ZU_09

Puffer fish Tetraodontidae Around fishing hedgehogs

Puffer fish (Tetraodontidae), Around fishing hedgehogs. / Orbes (title on object), Puffer fish 1-4. Numbered top right: 8. With the Latin names. Part of the sixth album with drawings of fish, shells and insects. Sixth of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanations in Dutch, Latin and French, bony fishes (with NAME), Anselmus Boetius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610, paper, pencil, chalk, watercolor (paint), deck paint, ink, pen, h 237 mm × w 165 mm

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