Weedy Seadragon, Phyllopteryx foliatus – (Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker) ◄ Προηγούμενος Επόμενος ►

Artist: Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker

ημερομηνία: 1858

μουσείο: Museums Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)

Τεχνική: Watercolour

This watercolour is the first known illustration of a Weedy Seadragon from Victorian waters in 1858. It was commissioned by Sir Frederick McCoy, Director of Museum Victoria as part of his zoological research. It forms part of the much larger Prodromus Collection. Many of the original illustrations in the collection informed the production of the two-volume work