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Artist
- Name:
- Kretschmer, Robert
- Dates:
- 1818-1872
- Country:
- Germany
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- University of Illinois Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Brehms Tierleben, vol. 8
- Author(s):
- Brehm, Alfred Edmund
- Publisher:
- Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1900
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
A fish is seen with its head out of the pond shooting water from its mouth at a bee foraging around a raceme of pink flowers.
The archerfish form the Toxotidae fish family and are named for their preying habits.
The caption reads in the original German: Schützenfisch.
Keywords: 1900s, 20th century, Brehms Tierleben, color, fish, flower, hunting, insect, reference book, Toxotidae
