'La Carpe de Mer' [Wrasse] Size:M: 75 x 50cm This warmly toned portrait shows

This warmly toned portrait shows the sitter at half-length

View of premises in Addle Street

'Any Work for John Cooper'

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'La Carpe de Mer' [Wrasse] Size:M: 75 x 50cm This warmly toned portrait showsMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta). Includes a detail of the jaws and teeth of the fish, lower left. Plate 1 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. I.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772