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Title: Fishing bark
Creator: Toms, W. H. (William Henry), ca. 1700-ca. 1750
Date Created and/or Issued: 1736
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
Rights Information: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
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Description: Engraving by Toms of a fishing bark (or boat). In the foreground fishermen hawl in a net, and in the background can be seen another fishing vessel, and the sun rising in the distance. Scanned from plate XVII part III opposite page 166 in volume 2 of Noël Antoine Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, or, Nature display'd, published in London by J. Pemberton, N. Prevost, R. Franklin and C. Davis in 1736.
Type: image
Format: 1 plate, in book
art
Identifier: rbm-m63
rbm-pluche-v2-pl166
http://doi.org/10.25549/rbm-m63
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/rbm-pluche-v2-pl166.jpg
Language: Latin
Subject: Fishing boats
Fishing nets
Source: QH41.P8 1733 v.2 [Call Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Pluche, Noël Antoine. Spectacle de la nature. London: J. Pemberton, 1736
Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
Science
rbm-m36

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