Watercolour illustration - Butterfly Gurnard, Lepidotrigla vanessa, Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip, Arthur Bartholomew, August 1864, This scientific illustration of a Butterfly Gurnard, Lepidotrigla vanessa, by Arthur Bartholomew was based on a specimen (NMV 41544) from Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip. The work, commissioned by Sir Frederick McCoy, Director of Museum Victoria, as part of his zoological research, forms part of the much larger Prodromus Collection. Many of the original illustrations in the collection informed, Reimagined by Gibon, design of warm cheerful glowing of brightness and light ray

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