'Le Torsk' [juvenile Atlantic cod?] Size:XL: 120 x 60cm although charges of high treason

although charges of high treason were never proved

This was the first celestial atlas based on telescopic observations

26th May 1968

Views of Liverpool

A boy is holding up a small child at the cage

'Le Torsk' [juvenile Atlantic cod?] Size:XL: 120 x 60cm although charges of high treasonMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), possibly a juvenile, with a plan view of the head of the fish. The title of the print normally refers a different fish, the Tusk or Cusk (Brosme brosme), but the print clearly represents a cod. Plate 4 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: