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Porcupinefishes: top, Plumier's diodon; centre, the mole diodon; bottom, the bottle fish Wall Art
ART BY: Marcus Elieser Bloch
Porcupinefishes: top, Plumier's diodon; centre, the mole diodon; bottom, the bottle fish Wall Art
ART BY: Marcus Elieser Bloch
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Porcupinefishes: top, Plumier's diodon; centre, the mole diodon; bottom, the bottle fish is an etchings by Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799), dated 25 March 1803. The artist is catalogued as German. The original is held by the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 4616 × 6000 px (4.3 MB). You will find it among Plants & Animals and Animals, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 431 works by Marcus Elieser Bloch, a German artist.
Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799) was a German physician and naturalist, who is best known for his contribution to ichthyology through his multivolume catalog of plates illustrating the fishes of the world. Brought up in a Hebrew-speaking Jewish family, he learned German and Latin and studied anatomy before settling in Berlin as a physician.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Marcus Elieser Bloch →
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Porcupinefishes: top, Plumier's diodon; centre, the mole diodon; bottom, the bottle fish is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
