Title
Plate 87 from Lacépède, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons
Description
This plate is from Lacépède's Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, (five volumes 1798-1803), specifically from the Brussels reprint of 1835. The Count de Lacépède, like Chladni a fine amateur musician, was famed as a zoologist who completed Buffon's Natural History. He was present at Chladni's meeting with Napoleon in February 1809.
Creator
Count de Lacépède
Date
1835
