EditorialSparus cuning, Print, Gilt-head bream, The gilt-head (sea) bream (Sparus aurata), called the Orata in antiquity and Italy and Spain today, is a fish of the bream family Sparidae found in the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern coastal regions of the Nort...
EditorialThe Porgy (Sparus chrysops). Dated: published 1754. Dimensions: plate: 26 x 35.7 cm (10 1/4 x 14 1/16 in.) sheet: 31.4 x 44.9 cm (12 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving on laid paper.
EditorialThe Lane-snapper (Sparus synagris). Dated: published 1731-1743. Dimensions: plate: 23.7 x 32.2 cm (9 5/16 x 12 11/16 in.) sheet: 36 x 50.8 cm (14 3/16 x 20 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving on laid paper.
EditorialGilthead seabream, Sparus aurata 26, white seabream, Diplodus sargus sargus 27, picarel, Spicara maena 28, and Ray's bream, Brama brama 29. Handcolored copperplate engraving after Jacob Nilson from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural Hist...
EditorialRedstriped eartheater, Geophagus surinamensis (Surinam sparus, Sparus surinamensis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, Lon...
EditorialSpanish hogfish, Bodianus rufus (Boar-tusked sparus, Sparus verres). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806.
EditorialLarge-eye dentex, Dentex macrophthalmus (Great-eyed sparus, Sparus macrophthalmus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, Lond...
EditorialNassau grouper, Epinephelus striatus (Semifasciated sparus, Sparus semifasciatus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, Londo...
EditorialOrange-dotted tuskfish, Choerodon anchorago (Anchor-toothed sparus, Sparus anchorago). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany,"...
EditorialPandora fish, Pagellus erythrinus (Rose sparus, Sparus erythrinus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806.
EditorialPandora fish, Pagellus erythrinus (Sparus erythrinus), and picarel, Spicara smaris (Sparus smaris). Handcolored engraving by Teillard after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d'Orbigny's "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle" (Universal Dict...
EditorialVosmerian sparus, Sparus vosmerianus. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1810.
EditorialBlack margate, Anisotremus surinamensis (Trimaculated spare, Sparus trimaculatus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, Londo...
EditorialBlackeye thicklip, Hemigymnus melapterus (Black-finned sparus, Sparus melanopterus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, Lon...
EditorialYellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus (Yellow striped sparus, Sparus chrysurus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," Londo...