'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:L: 80 x 40cm the summer of 1879 was

the summer of 1879 was particularly wet

the verse 'The Dutch Bubblers'

A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career

accepted taxonomy Chimera monstrosa) with a detail from the head

'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:L: 80 x 40cm the summer of 1879 wasMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Garfish, or Sea needle, (Belone belone). Plate 6 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. VI.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772