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C1788
Plate 17
Superb c.18th engraving of fish by Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1747-1804). Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature: Ichthyologie.
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Full Title:
Plate 17
Date:
C1788
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Paper Size:
221mm
x 290mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1788
Description:
Superb c.18th engraving of fish by Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1747-1804).
Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature: Ichthyologie.
Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1747 - 1804)
Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1747-1804) was a priest in the Rouergue and professor at the central school of Rhodes. He contributed studies on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique. Bonnaterre and is credited with identifying about 25 new species of fish, and assembled illustrations of about 400 in his encyclopedia work. He used previous studies by Bloch (1784-1788), of Gouan (1770), Broussonet (1782), Pennant (1767) and others.
