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Sunfish
Ichthyological study of the sunfish, Mola mola, here styled Mola Salviani, shown in full right profile.
Printed inscription: ‘Mola Salv./ Tab.1.26. Sumpt. D. Gualteri Yong Equitis aurati’ with further handwritten annotation ‘Orthragoriscus Rondel. The Sun-fish. Monsepetiensis Luna Moon fish. The Molebut Charleton.’ Numbered ‘74’ in the top right-hand corner.
Plate I:26 from De historia piscium libri quatuor, by Francis Willughby and John Ray (Oxford, 1686).
Francis Willughby (1635-1672), British naturalist, was an Original Fellow of the Royal Society.
John Ray (1627-1705), British naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1667.
- Image reference: RS-20660
- The Royal Society
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