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Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires.. Pl.023 (1718-1719)
Vibrant fish dart between spiny crabs and oddly shaped crayfish, their scales gleaming in impossible colors. The seafloor teems with creatures both familiar and bizarre, each rendered in meticulous detail—a kaleidoscopic menagerie defying nature’s usual palette.
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Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires.. Pl.017 (1718-1719)
Vibrant fish, crayfish, and crabs twist across the page—some striped, others spiked, all rendered in exaggerated hues. The creatures seem to writhe with life, their unnatural colors and strange forms blurring the line between scientific record and wild imagination.
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Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires.. Pl.008 (1718-1719)
Vibrant fish dart among spiny crabs and crayfish, their scales shimmering in impossible hues. The creatures twist in exaggerated forms, as if plucked from a fevered dream of the sea’s strangest depths. Each engraving pulses with unnatural color, bending reality into something wilder.
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Anthias Diagramma, The Warna. (1785-1797) (1)
A delicate fish, its scales shimmering in precise engraved lines, hovers against blank paper—caught mid-swim yet frozen, every fin and gill rendered with scientific clarity. The ocean is absent, but the creature pulses with life.
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Ostracion Cornutus, The Horn-fish. (1785-1797)
A horned fish floats mid-page, its armored body etched in precise lines. Spines jut from its boxy frame, delicate fins splayed like lace. The engraving freezes this odd creature between science and art—part specimen, part phantom from the deep.
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Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires.. Pl.019 (1718-1719)
Vibrant fish dart across the page, their scales shimmering in impossible hues. Nearby, a crimson crab claws at the edge, its shell etched with intricate patterns. The sea creatures twist in exaggerated forms—some striped like tigers, others spotted like leopards—as if plucked from a sailor’s wildest tale.
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1. Centriscus Scolopax, The Snipe-Fish; 2. Centriscus Scutatus, The Knife Fish; (1785-1797)
Two slender fish, one curved like a snipe’s beak, the other flat as a blade, float against blank parchment. Delicate engravings trace each rib and fin with scientific precision, transforming marine creatures into elegant specimens suspended between art and study.
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Fishes III (1885-1890)
Delicate fins ripple through translucent watercolor washes. Scales glint with muted iridescence, each brushstroke tracing the fluid grace of marine life suspended on paper. The fish seem to dart just beyond the page’s edge.
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Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires.. Pl.013 (1718-1719)
Vibrant fish, crayfish, and crabs twist across the page—some striped, others spiked, all with exaggerated colors and strange forms. The creatures seem to writhe under the viewer’s gaze, as if plucked from a fever dream of the sea.