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Date

1763

Artist

George Edwards (1694-1773)

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Side view of a variety of longnose butterflyfish [possibly Chelmon rostratus, although this specimen is not banded]. Inscribed: “After nature of the Size of Life. G.Edwards Delin: April 13 1764 in the 71st year of his age. Plate 9 from the paper “An account of a fish from Batavia, called Jaculator...” by John Albert Schlosser, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.54 (1764) pp.89-91.