'The Horned Fish; and the Sea Scorpion' [Longhorn cowfish and Short-spined sea scorpion] Size:XL: 100 x 75cm produced many well known cars

produced many well known cars

The balloon belonged to the Italian aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi (1759-1806)

With pencilled instructions to printers 'a careful shaded view omitting outside the lines'

9th June 1974

'The Horned Fish; and the Sea Scorpion' [Longhorn cowfish and Short-spined sea scorpion] Size:XL: 100 x 75cm produced many well known carsMarine zoological studies of two fishes: the Longhorn cowfish Lactoria cornuta, a main image with two uncoloured views of the upper body and underside; with a view of a female Short spined sea scorpion Myoxocephalus scorpius shown with roe or eggs. Plate 284 from chapter 74 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: