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Apogon cupreus

Painting showing a side view of brown fish with red fins; scales individually rendered; blue wash underneath. Pencilled inscription on mat reads, "Apogon cupreus."

Symonds, Mary

Balistes viridescens

Painting showing a side view of brown fish; scales rendered through cross-hatching; blue wash underneath. Pencil inscription on mat reads, "Balistes viridescens."

Symonds, Mary

Callichrous chechra

Painting showing a side view of blue-and-grey whiskered fish with pink accents. Very lightly painted. Pencil inscription on mat reads, "Callichrous chechra."

Symonds, Mary

Chaetodon vagabundus

Painting showing a side view of striated light-coloured angelfish with black-and-yellow fins and tail. Pencil inscription on mat reads, "Chaetodon vagabundus."

Symonds, Mary

Chrysophrys hasta

Painting showing a side view of red fish with light blue and grey undertones. Pencil inscriptions on mat read, "Chrysophrys hasta" and "Kārkǎṭi" (pencil).

Symonds, Mary

Cirrhina

Painting showing side view of fish in grey, teal, and violet, suggesting iridescence. Pencil inscription on mat reads, "Cirrhina."

Symonds, Mary

Coryphaena equiselis

Painting showing a side view of fish with lavender, dark blue, grey, pale yellow, blue-green, and light rose washes of paint, suggesting iridescence. Inscription beneath the painting reads, "Dolphin," with, "Coryphaena equiselis" beneath that in pencil on the mat.

Symonds, Mary

Crocodilus palustris

Painting showing a side view of speckled marsh crocodile in light green, grey, and brown; slight grey shadow underneath. Features additional notes in Gwillim's hand regarding crocodile's size and where it was found: on the drawing in pencil, a small number "51," "10 feet [unclear]," and "A [unclear] aligator taken from the ditch at Vellore." Other pencil inscriptions on the mat read, "Crocodilus palustris" (at side) and "Crocodilus palustris / A aligator taken from the ditch at _ ?" (at bottom). The "10 feet" on the drawing has been re-written underneath.

Symonds, Mary

Exocoetus

Painting showing a side view of flying fish in blue and grey; scales sketched individually. Pencilled inscription on mat reads, "Exocoetus."

Symonds, Mary

Fish

The series consists of 31 watercolour paintings of fish, created while Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds were living in Madras, India (modern-day Chennai). The paintings are preceded by an introductory page of notes by Casey A. Wood. The paintings were originally attributed to Gwillim by Wood, largely on the basis of handwriting, but have more recently been tentatively attributed to Mary Symonds approximately around the year 1805 on the basis of information found in the sisters' correspondence. The fishes depicted are identified by a handwritten caption in the margin of each painting. Approximately one third of the paintings also feature an additional caption written in an Urdu script. These paintings may be copies of Symonds' originals created by a local artist in India. Item 30 (Crocodilus palustris) also contains additional manuscript notes.

Symonds, Mary

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