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Engraved natural history plate with a fish, lizard, hare head, two dogs, a skeleton, bones, a sphere, and a coat of arms in a cartouche.

Natural history plate with fish, hare, dogs and skeleton, Staffordshire

An engraved plate labelled Tab XXII shows natural history specimens arranged across the page: a fish and a lizard at top, a hare's head, two dogs, a large animal skeleton, and small bones. A heraldic coat of arms in an ornate cartouche sits at lower right beside a stone-like sphere.

Artist
Robert Plot
Date
1686
Medium
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2348 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Licensed CC BY 4.0 (Wellcome Collection) by Wellcome Collection; credit required.
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)