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mounted pickerel
mounted pickerel

mounted pickerel

Datecirca 1790
Inventory Number0039
ClassificationMounted Biological Specimen
Subject
    Maker William Dandridge Peck 1763 - 1822
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Place of Use
          Dimensions35.8 x 56.5 x 1.8 cm (14 1/8 x 22 1/4 x 11/16 in.)
          Material
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            DescriptionThis is a dried pickerel skin mounted on cardboard, collected from Boston's Charles River in 1790. The frame is not original.
            In Collection(s)
            Signedlabeled in ink: Collection Prof. Peck / Esax Reticulatus? / Pickerel, / B14. D17, P12, V10, A15, C20. / Locality Boston 1790
            ProvenanceMuseum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; transferred to CHSI May 20, 1948.
            Historical AttributesProfessor William Dandridge Peck may have sketched the drawings that illustrate his lecture notes from this and many other mounted specimens. Only between twenty and thirty dried fish skins mounted by Peck remain. They are the oldest surviving collection of biological specimens from Harvard College.
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