Checkered puffer, Sphoeroides testudineus 1, unknown species 2, and white-spotted puffer fish, Arothron hispidus 3. Le tetrodon perroquet, Tetrodon testudineus, le tetrodon etoile, Tetraodon cinereus, le tetrodon herisse, Tetrodon hispidus. Handcoloured stipple engraving from le Comte de la Cépède’s Oeuvres du comte de Lacépède, comprenant l’histoire naturelle des poissons, Paris, circa 1850. The uncredited illustrations were copied from originals by Jacques de Seve, Marcus Bloch, Robert Benard, Jean-Gabriel Pretre, etc.

---

Size: 4605px × 7051px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1850s, 18th, arothron, benard, bloch, buffon, century, checkered, cinereus, comprenant, comte, count, de, des, du, engraving, enlightenment, etoile, fish, fishing, french, handcoloured, herisse, hispidus, history, ichthyology, illustrations, jacques, jean-gabriel, la, lacepede, lacéède, le, marcus, marine, natural, naturelle, ocean, oeuvres, paris, perroquet, poissons, pretre, puffer, robert, sea, seve, species, sphoeroides, stipple, study, testudineus, tetraodon, tetrodon, unknown, white-spotted, zoology, éède, ’histoire