Fishing with several sorts of nets

Engraving by Toms of a coastal scene depicting fishermen using different types of nets. In the background are several types of fish: chubs, eels and lampreys, barbels, pollards trouts, and tenches. Scanned from plate II part II opposite page 67 in volume 2 of Noël Antoine Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, or, Nature display'd, published in London by J. Pemberton, N. Prevost, R. Franklin and C. Davis in 1736.该铜版画由Toms创作，描绘了一处海岸作业场景：渔民正使用多种类型的渔网进行捕捞。画面背景中绘有若干鱼类品类，涵盖鲦鱼、鳗鱼、七鳃鳗、须鲃、鳟鱼与丁鱥。本藏品扫描自诺埃尔·安托万·普吕谢（Noël Antoine Pluche）所著《自然的奇观》（*Spectacle de la nature*，又名《Nature Display'd》）第二卷第67页对页的第二部分第二幅印版，该书于1736年由J. Pemberton、N. Prevost、R. Franklin及C. Davis在伦敦联合出版。