The Globe Fish (Tetrodon lagocephalus)

published 1731-1743

Mark Catesby

Associated Names
Mark Catesby

Artist, English, 1679 - 1749

The image displays large green leaves, a fish with a spherical body and a textured pattern, small blue berries, pink flowers, and various shades of green and earthy tones.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

  • Dimensions

    plate: 35.2 x 26.2 cm (13 7/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 51.3 x 36 cm (20 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.163.39

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Natural History, Vol. vol.2, no. 28

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green, Virginia; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

Bibliography

1771

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

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: MC; lower left in plate: An Phafeolus &c.; lower center in plate: Orbis &c.; upper left in plate: Cornus &c; upper right in plate: T28

Watermarks

fleur-de-lis

Wikidata ID

Q74894804

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