| Date Note | Date of another drawing from the original Bozziano collection which is also numbered |
| Description | Watercolour study of a part and counterpart of a small, complete specimen of the fossil fish Atherina macrocephala Agassiz, by Joseph Dinkel, [?1833]. From the collection of Comte Giovambattista Gazola [in the Jardin des Plantes/Museum of Natural History, Paris].
Annotated 'Originales de Gazzola Tab 48 fig 3 Silury.' This is a reference to an engraving of the specimen appearing in Giovanni Serafino Volta's 'Ittiolitologia veronese del Museo Bozziano ora annesso a quello del Conte Giovambattista Gazola e di altri gabinetti di fossili veronesi' (1796), plate 48, figure 3 under 'Silurus ascita'.
Note: marked nos '202-203'. |
| Administrative History | Collected/drawn as part of the research for Louis Agassiz's 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' (1833-1843/1844).
The specimen is likely to be one of the items originally in the collection of the Museo Bozziano removed by Napoleon's army and taken to Paris, and which are now in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. |