Barbel Collection

A Selection of Fish
An assortment of fish: 1. sharp-nosed eel, 2. blunt-nosed eel, 3. burbot, 4. lamprey, 5. lampern, 6. chub, 7. perch, 8. roach, 9. bream, 10. rudd, 11. Prussian carp, 12. Crucian carp, 13. tench, 14

Barbus barbus, or Common Barbel, also known as Barbus. Date: 1865

Barbel by H.J. Oliver

Plate 130 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Barbel, tench and goldfish
Barbel, Barbus barbus 153, tench, Tinca tinca 154, and Prussian carp or goldfish, Carassius auratus auratus 155. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of

Barbel, Barbus barbus (Cyprinus barbus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J. Rivington, London, 1802-1808

Carp and perch varieties
Carp, Cyprinus carpio 1, 2, barbel, Barbus barbus 3, pike-perch, Sander lucioperca 4, and European perch, Perca fluviatilis 5

Gudgeon and Barbel
Gudgeon (Gobio gobio) and Barbel (Barbus barbus). Date: 1879

Barbel, Barbu barbu, and bleak, Alburnus alburnus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G

LS Plate 116 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 139 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 129 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 164 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Hemidoras stenopeltis, catfish
Drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace of the catfish Hemidoras stenopeltis from Cuyucuyu, Upper Rio Negro

Catfish
Drawing no 114 by Alfred Russel Wallace

Asterophysus batrachus, ogre catfish
Drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace of the ogre catfish (Asterophysus batrachus) from Mamyacu, Upper Rio Negro

Cheilopogon sp. flyingfish

Ictalurus punctatus, river catfish
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Upeneichthys lineatus, blue-lined goatfish
Watercolour 373 by Thomas Watling entitled barrang ang, from the Watling Collection

Colourful illustration of five fish, two lobsters and a crab
Plate 53 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

A Barbel and a Dace
A barbel and a dace

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