| Date Note | Date of Dinkel's arrival in Britain, last date of publication of Recherches |
| Description | Watercolour study, with scale details, of an incomplete specimen [missing head] of the fossil fish Palaeoniscus comtus Agassiz, by Joseph Dinkel, [?1835-1836]. Found in Magnesian Limestone, Ferry Hill, from the collection of William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen.
Caption references in Agassiz, J L R. 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' (1833-1843/4), Vol 2, p97 but drawing unpublished.
Size: 315mm (w) x 206mm (h). |
| Administrative History | Drawing is marked 'unpublished', which indicates that it was likely to have been commissioned as part of Louis Agassiz's 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' (1833-1843/4) |