Swordfish

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Artist

Name:
Unknown

Illustration

Subject:
Animals
Technique:
Lithograph
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
University of Illinois Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Brehms Tierleben, vol. 8
Author:
Brehm, Alfred Edmund
Publisher:
Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1900
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Description:

A swordfish is seen jumping out of a wave to run another fish through with its bill as birds sit on, or fly around a rock behind. Swordfish are the only member of the family Xiphiidae.

The caption reads in the original German: Schwertfisch.

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