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English: Sketch 25. (Longnose) Saw shark (Pristiophorus cirratus) watercolour on paper sketch from the Sketchbook of fishes by Van Diemonian (Tasmanian) artist and convict William Buelow Gould (1801 - 1853).
Produced c1832 as part of a thirty-six image still life sketchbook of fishes while Gould was a convict on Sarah Island at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station. Probably done for Dr William De Little.
Actual size 185 x 227 mm. This version is cropped to the main image.
Date circa 1832
date QS:P,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Reproduced with kind permission of the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.
The original may be found at http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?id=80818.
Author William Buelow Gould (1801 - 1853).
Reproduction by the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.
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