C1788

Plate 75

Artist:

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 75

Date:

C1788

Artist:

Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1747 - 1804)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured copper engraving.

Paper Size:

221mm

x 290mm

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.

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