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Anonymous (17th cent.). Man-of-war fish (Nomeus gronovii). Drawing, pen and blue and brown ink and watercolour, goldpaint, 8x5 cm., w. contemp. manuscript annotation below, framed. - Browned and foxed. = The annotation reads as: "Dit visken en dient nerghens toe als om antesien weghen syne frayen glinzende couleur. Want het leefft van de fenijnghe zeeblasen in de zee" (This fish is only useful to look at because of its shiny colour. Because it lives from the vicious sea bladders [jelly fish] in the sea). The man-of-war fish only eats the smaller tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war (from which it derives its name) and has a symbiotic relation with the jelly fish. From the collection of C.G. 't Hooft, former curator of Museum Fodor, with his manuscript collector's mark ("Hft") and annotations in pencil on verso. 't Hooft attributes this drawing to Rochus van Veen, comparing it to a drawing sold in 1924 at R.W.P. de Vries. But probably not by Van Veen. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.