Armoured fish ['Placodermi'] mb-height 5380 Signed lower left 'G

Signed lower left 'G

Half length seated portrait of Huddart

16th November 1960

The Emperor Napoleon III speaking to Queen Victoria A fine gun

Armoured fish ['Placodermi'] mb-height 5380 Signed lower left 'GSketches of two types of extinct armoured fossil fish from the class Placodermi, active from the Silurian to Devonian periods. Side views of one whole fish and one head study, as if in life. Found loosely inserted in Recherches sur les poisons fosssiles tome 1, by Louis Agassiz (Neuchatel, 1833 1843), pp. 36 37. Agassiz's work was the first significant survey of fossil ichthyology and these rough sketches were probably made by someone using the book