Date Note | Earliest drawing by this artist, upper date of drawings from the Egerton/Enniskillen collections |
Description | Watercolour study of an incomplete specimen [mostly scales] of the fossil fish Pholidophorus Bechei Agassiz, by Jacques Bourkhardt, [1835-1838]. Found in the Lias, Lyme Regis, from the collection of William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen.
Note: drawing references Agassiz, J L R, 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' (1833-1843/4), vol 2, p272, but was not published. |