'La Carpe de Mer' [Wrasse] Size:M: 75 x 50cm -' Signed in ink lower

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View of the first bridge at Paddington and the accommodation barge

'The Guard of 1852' and 'The Guard of 1832

This warmly toned portrait shows the sitter at half-length

wearing a greedy expression

'La Carpe de Mer' [Wrasse] Size:M: 75 x 50cm -' Signed in ink lowerMarine 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