'..a Greyling' and 'carp' Finish:Rolled preserving neutrality

preserving neutrality

Side view of the skull of a seal 'from the South Seas' in the collections of the British Museum

For added comfort he has added an old armchair and an a ancient record player fitted in the rear

body angled to the viewer's left

110 (1820)

'..a Greyling' and 'carp' Finish:Rolled preserving neutralityStudy of a grayling and a carp. Inscribed '1. Gristagine Auguste a Greyling [Grayling]'; '2. Cyprinus Rond a Carp' with note 'Pisces non aculeati, unica in dorso pinna pluviatiles et edentuli'. A handwritten annotation reads '1 Goby fluviatilis species p. 263'. Illustration from De historia piscium libri quatuor, by Francis Willughby and John Ray (Oxford, 1686). Original: engraving. 1686