'La Carpe de Mer' [Wrasse] Size:M: 75 x 50cm wearing a greedy expression

wearing a greedy expression

Copy of plate 3 from the paper 'Uber den Grunsand und seine Erlauterung des organischen lebens'

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'The Guard of 1852' and 'The Guard of 1832

'Any Work for John Cooper'

'La Carpe de Mer' [Wrasse] Size:M: 75 x 50cm wearing a greedy expressionMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta). Includes a detail of the jaws and teeth of the fish, lower left. Plate 1 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. I.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772