'La Chimere' [Rabbitfish] Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm a cut specimen and its

a cut specimen and its seed

which virtually finished his career

August 1963

On the frozen River Ijsel figures are skating

'La Chimere' [Rabbitfish] Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm a cut specimen and itsMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Rabbitfish (here termed Chimaera argentea, accepted taxonomy Chimera monstrosa) with a detail from the head. Plate 15 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed in ink upper left 'Tab. XV.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772