Weedy Seadragon, Phyllopteryx foliatus – (Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker) ◄ Anterior Próximo ►

Artist: Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker

Encontro: 1858

museu: Museums Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)

Técnica: 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