The Viper-mouth (Silurus cataphractus), published 1731-1743

Not on View

etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

plate: 26 x 35.7 cm (10 1/4 x 14 1/16 in.)

sheet: 35.6 x 53.8 cm (14 x 21 3/16 in.)

Natural History, Vol. appendix, no. 19

1991.163.97

Mark Catesby (artist) English, 1679 - 1749

lower center in plate: MC; lower left in plate: MC; lower right in plate: 19; by later hand, lower center in graphite: "The Viper-mouth"

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

Green, George Benjamin, Dr. and Mrs.

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