The Green Gar Fish (Esox osseus)

published 1731-1743

Mark Catesby

Associated Names
Mark Catesby

Artist, English, 1679 - 1749

The image displays a long, horizontally angled fish with a protruding snout at the bottom, and a branch with green elongated leaves, small yellow flowers, and brown buds filling the upper portion. The color palette includes muted greens, browns, yellows, and a touch of pinkish patterning on the fish. The fish is partially overlapped by the branch of foliage in the foreground, with the foliage extending upwards behind the fish and across the upper part of the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.3 × 34.8 cm (9 15/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 36.4 × 43 cm (14 5/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1973.26.18

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Natural History, Vol. vol.2, no. 30

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1771

  • Catesby, Mark. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. London: 1771.

Wikidata ID

Q65574783

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