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Myripristis murdjan

by: Symonds, Mary, artist

Publication date: 1801

Topics: Symonds, Mary., Myripristis., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Gwillim Fish, Symonds, Mary, Myripristis

Publisher: [Madras, India]

Collection: mcgilluniversity; mcgilluniversityrarebooks; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: unknown

1 painting : watercolour on wove paper ; 31 x 25 cm

1 painting : 31 x 25 cm

Caption title

Species name from World Register of Marine Species: Myripristis murdjan

Common name: Pinecone soldierfish

Inscriptions on drawing: a small number "22" (pencil) and inscription in Tamil written in Urdu script (ink)

Painting showing a side view of red fish with black detailing on fins, with scales rendered individually and a blue wash near fins and tail. Pencil inscriptions on mat read, "Myripristis murdjan" and "Kākājī."

Purchased in London in 1924 by Casey A. Wood as part of a collection of watercolours and donated to the Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology

Addeddate: 2022-04-12 20:10:45

Associated-names: Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942, donor; Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology

Identifier: McGillLibrary-rbsc_gwillim_fish_14_myripristis-murdjan-21263

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/s2j2dhn528w

Note: Caption title.
Species name from World Register of Marine Species: Myripristis murdjan.
Common name: Pinecone soldierfish.
Inscriptions on drawing: a small number "22" (pencil) and inscription in Tamil written in Urdu script (ink).
Painting showing a side view of red fish with black detailing on fins, with scales rendered individually and a blue wash near fins and tail. Pencil inscriptions on mat read, "Myripristis murdjan" and "Kākājī."
Purchased in London in 1924 by Casey A. Wood as part of a collection of watercolours and donated to the Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology
Wood, C.A. Vertebrate zoology,page 502