'Le Titling' [adult Atlantic cod?] Size:S: 60 x 45cm active 1740-1770)

active 1740-1770)

The house was formerly the residence of Sir John Lawrence

William Haywood and Messrs Valentine

Giedo creating spray at Albert Park

Inscribed: 'PETRUS CAMPER

'Le Titling' [adult Atlantic cod?] Size:S: 60 x 45cm active 1740-1770)Marine zoological study showing a side view of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) possibly an adult fish. Plate 5 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: V.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772