Image: Sketchbook of fishes - 11. Leafy sea dragon - William Buelow Gould, c1832

Description: Sketch 11. Leafy sea dragon (mistitled, actually Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) watercolour on paper sketch from the Sketchbook of fishes by Van Diemonian (Tasmanian) artist and convict William Buelow Gould (1801 - 1853). This full reproduction shows the bindings of the sketchbook at the top of the image. Produced c1832 as part of a thirty-six image still life sketchbook of fishes while Gould was a convict on Sarah Island at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station. Probably done for Dr William De Little. Actual size 185 x 227 mm.
Title: Sketchbook of fishes - 11. Leafy sea dragon - William Buelow Gould, c1832
Credit: Reproduced with kind permission of the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office. The original may be found at http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?id=80818.
Author: William Buelow Gould (1801 - 1853). Reproduction by the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.
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