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Original Antique Print of Lesser Grey Mullet
By: Jonathan Couch
Date: c.1860
Title: Lesser Grey Mullet
Original Printed Color
Condition: Good
Price: $35
Paper Size: 6 3/4 inches Height by 10 inches Width
Image Size: 4 inches Height by 8 1/2 inches Width
Jonathan Couch (1789–1870) was a British naturalist. For sixty years he was the doctor and trusted adviser of the village of Polperro, Cornwall, England.
He trained in succession a large number of fishermen to aid him in his natural history observations. He was in correspondence with many of the foremost naturalists. Couch's principal work was done in ichthyology, the branch of zoology dedicated to fish.
His magnum opus was A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, with colored illustrations from his own drawings (1860–65). This is a storehouse of information, carefully collected and sifted, as to the habits of fishes, and in many cases the illustrations give unique representations of the vivid natural colors of fishes while yet alive or immediately after death.
Couch was a Methodist of the Free Church. His sincere religious views tinctured much of his writing and influenced his social conduct. Couch was an excellent local antiquary, as to words, customs, and remains. The welfare of the fishermen and the prosperity of the fisheries were equally his care.
Couch left three sons by his second wife: Richard Quiller, Thomas Quiller and John Quiller, who all became surgeons (Quiller being their mother's maiden name.)
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