Large Print Labels - NLA-Z - National Library of Australia
Large Print Labels - NLA-Z - National Library of Australia
Large Print Labels - NLA-Z - National Library of Australia
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X<br />
LUDWIG SCHMIDT (engraver)<br />
AFTER ANDREAS KRUGER (artist, 1743–1805)<br />
MARCUS BLOCH (author and publisher, 1723–1799)<br />
Xiphias gladius plate 76 from Ichthyology, or Natural History,<br />
General and Particular Fish<br />
Paris and Berlin: Marcus Bloch, 1795–1797<br />
REx NAN KIVELL COLLECTION (PICTURES)<br />
X is for Xiphias gladius, the Swordfish<br />
The swordfish’s taxonomic name is derived from the Greek<br />
xiphias and the Latin gladius, both <strong>of</strong> which mean ‘sword’. This<br />
plate is from a book regarded as the greatest work on fish<br />
published in the 18th century.
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