print
- Museum number
- 2AA+,a.67.1
- Title
- Series: Fish
- Description
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An arrangement of fish and shells on a seashore, including a conger eel; in the background, a seascape with tall ships at left; at right, fishermen bringing their catch ashore and a quayside market with a town beyond; mountains in the distance
Engraving
- Production date
- 1598 (after)
- Dimensions
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Height: 121 millimetres
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Width: 188 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the second plate in Adriaen Collaert's series, Piscium vivae icones; for comment on the series see 1956,1005.48.2.
The contents of the volume were once bound with those of 2AA+,a.49 (pressmark 157.b.25). Collaert's series of fish is annotated by the naturalist James Petiver; it was probably acquired by Sloane after Petiver's death, c.1718.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2AA+,a.67.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1972,U.29.1