PIKED DOG. Spiny dogfish, spurdog, mud shark, Squalus acanthias. COUCH, 1862
'Picked Dog and young'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Printed from original watercolours and drawings by Jonathan Couch, an eminent British naturalist who lived in the fishing village of Polperro, Cornwall. Engraved onto woodblocks by Alex Lydon. Plates printed in colour by Benjamin Fawcett, with final hand-colouring by local artists in Polperro. Provenance: "A History of the Fishes of the British Islands"; by Jonathan Couch, Published by Groombridge and Sons, London. Type: Fine antique woodblock print on good quality paper. Printed in colour and finished by hand in Polperro, Cornwall. Spur Dog. Bone Dog. Hoe, in Orkney; in Cornwall the male is called Skittle Dog. Pre-eminently this fish is called the Dogfish; Galeus acanthias gazae, Squalus acanthias, Squale aiguillat, Common dogfish, Acanthias vulgaris
Size: 2621px × 1447px
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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