'Perche Rouge ou Norvegienne' [Rose fish] Product:Framed picture lambs to the slaughter

lambs to the slaughter

7th February 1964

A large lady seeks advice from the Railway guard at St Pancras

Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery

Greenwich Hospital

'Perche Rouge ou Norvegienne' [Rose fish] Product:Framed picture lambs to the slaughterMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Rose fish (here termed Perca norvegica, accepted taxonomy Sebastes norvegicus) with a detail from the head. Plate 16 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. XVI.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving.