A very ugly fish, sketched from above, and fully painted in side view.
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A very ugly fish, sketched from above, and fully painted in side view. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed in ink: ‘Fig. 1st. Laphinus spinosus.’ Pen and ink and wash, and water-colour; 279 by 218 mm.
A horned fish. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed in ink: ‘Fig. 2. Ostracion Cornutus. From a Specimen in possession of Lady Hastings. View beneath. View above. Profile.’ Pen and ink and wash, and water-colour; 275 by 218 mm.
76 drawings in an album, depicting mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms and fish of Ceylon. This is the third of three volumes written and drawn by Eudelin de Jonville entitled: 'Quelques Notions sur L'Isle de Ceylon'. A
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Seventy-six folios in pencil, pen-and-ink and water-colour, bound in a volume measuring 15 by 10.5 inches. Sixty-nine ff. depict 2 mammals, 24 birds, 8 reptilia, 28 insects, 6 arthropods, while 7 ff. (70-76) depict a miscellaneous group including 1 mollusc, 2 echinoderms, 1 amphibia, 1 reptilia...