Ref NoLDGSL/614/3/65
TitleSketch of the head of 'Dentex ventralis Agassiz'
Date[1833-1835]
Date NoteDate of first publication by Hibbert on the Burdie House fish (1833), artist died in 1835
LevelItem
Extent1 item
FormatPhotograph/drawing/painting/print
DescriptionIncomplete pencil and watercolour sketch of the head of the fossil fish 'Dentex ventralis Agassiz', by Charlotte Wilhelmina Hibbert, wife of Samuel Hibbert [later Samuel Hibbert-Ware], [1833-1835]. Found in Monte Bolca, from the collection of Samuel Hibbert.

The sketch is on the reverse of a lithograph 'Osseous remains from the Limestone of Burdie-House', again drawn by Mrs Hibbert [Charlotte Wilhelmina Hibbert] and printed by J & W Smith, Lithographer, [1833-1835], which was published in, Hibbert, Samuel, 'Memoir on the fresh-water limestone of Burdiehouse [Burdie House], in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, belonging to the Carboniferous group of rocks...' Edinburgh: Neill & Company, 1835, plate 10.
Administrative HistoryCollected/drawn as part of the research for Louis Agassiz's 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' (1833-1843/1844), drawing is referenced by Agassiz by corresponding plate was never published.
ProvenanceFrom a folder marked 'Percidae, Sparidae'
Access ConditionsAccess is by appointment only. Please contact the Archivist for further information.
Languagen/a
Publication NoteDrawing is referenced in: Agassiz, J L R 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' (1833-1843/1844), vol 4, p150, but the accompanying plate Tab 24, fig 2 was never published.
ArchNoteBased on a listing made by Mahala Andrews (1977-1981), expanded by Caroline Lam
CreatorNameHIBBERT | Charlotte Wilhelmina | d.1835 | 2nd wife of Samuel Hibbert
AGASSIZ | Jean Louis Rudolphe | 1807-1873 | palaeontologist, zoologist, and geomorphologist
SubjectCarboniferous
Lower Carboniferous
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/44AGASSIZ; Jean Louis Rudolphe (1807-1873); palaeontologist, zoologist, and geomorphologist1807-1873
DS/UK/969WARE; Samuel Hibbert- (1782-1848); geologist and antiquarian1782-1848
DS/UK/1136HIBBERT; Charlotte Wilhelmina (d.1835); 2nd wife of Samuel Hibbertd.1835
Places
CodePlaceName
NA516Burdiehouse
NA537Monte Bolca
NA258Italy
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