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This is a detail of File:Pungent chaetodon John White.jpg, plate 39 of John White's 1790 Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales.

Plate 39. '1. The Pungent Chaetedon. 2. Granulated Balistes.'

Figure 1, captioned "THE LONG-SPINED CHAETODON", CHÆTODON ARMATUS shows a species Enoplosus armatus. The accompanying text states that

Chaetodon albescens, corpore, fasciis septem nigris, spinis pinnae dorsalis sex, tertia longissima.

Whitish Chaetodon, with seven black stripes on the body. Six spines on the dorsal fin, the third very long.

This appears to be a new and very elegant species of the genus Chaetodon. The total length of the specimen was not more than four inches. The colour a silvery white, darker, and of a bluish tinge on the back; the transverse fasciae, or bands, of a deep black; the fins and tail of a pale brown. The third ray or spine of the first dorsal fin is much longer than the rest.
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Source The original image appears in Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales. This digital image is taken from the Project Gutenberg transcription of that text, and is available here.
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No attribution for the painting is given in White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, and Smith's A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland attributes it to White. Salkin, has suggested that

"these were probably done by the convict artist Thomas Watling"

and this is supported by a set of paintings of the Journal plates by Watling that are held by the Natural History Museum, London. However, Helen Hewson states in Australia: 300 years of botanical illustration that

"it is thought by some that Thomas Watling, a convict artist of some ability, may have done the original artwork, but he did not arrive in the colony until late in 1792.... John Calaby believes that White had Watling copy the plates as published in the Journal for practice, because Watling was trained in landscape painting not natural history painting." [Adapted from File:The Banksia (John White).jpg ]
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