Doctor fish Edmond Halley

Doctor fish by Edmond Halley

Fine art poster
Fine art poster

  • Amazing giclée print quality
  • 240gsm thick fine art print paper
  • 100+ year colour guarantee
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Framed picture
Framed picture

  • Premium wooden frame with a thick bevel-cut mount
  • Fully strung, ready-to-hang
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Canvas
Canvas

  • 400gsm artist grade cotton
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  • European kiln-dried knotless pine
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Postcard
Postcard

  • Printed on 320gms thick art paper
  • Blank reverse for your own message
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Greetings card
Greetings card

  • Printed on 324gms thick Mohawk paper
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  • Supplied with envelopes and protective cellophane sleeves
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Doctor fish

Side view of a Doctorfish [Acanthurus ?] inscribed above in ink: "A Doctor Fish taken at the Isle of Sall [?] being half as bigg as the life". With calculations verso headed; "Multiplication". At a meeting of the Royal Society on 6 November 1700: "Dr. Sloane shewed a book of Albegetti's of artillery, and done according to Gallilae...Capt. Hally was desired to give the So: an acct. of this book in writing. The same produced several sketches of fishes, and of the Batavian Islands, for which he was thanked, and ye sketches ordered to be put into the Repository. The fishes were of two sorts of flying fish &c." Royal Society Journal Book Original, JBO/10/198. The astronomer Edmond Halley was commissioned captain in 1698 commanded the voyages of HMS Paramour in the South Atlantic.

Original: pencil on paper. 1699-1700

  • Image reference: RS-9361

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