'Le Brosme' [Torsk] Size:S: 60 x 45cm 12th December 1955

12th December 1955

verso "Original Lord Rosse's paper"

Plate 2 from the paper 'On new properties of heat

The business consists of making barrels

edited by his widow (London

'Le Brosme' [Torsk] Size:S: 60 x 45cm 12th December 1955Marine zoological study showing a side view of the Torsk fish (here termed Gadus brosme, accepted taxonomy Brosme brosme). Plate 17 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. XVII.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772