44 FISHES OF FANCY. 



and the other that represents Tobias hauling the fish 

 to land, with the Angel standing by. St. Peter in many 

 pictures of celebrity carries a fish, and in the pictures 

 of the " Calling of Peter and Andrew " and " Finding 

 the Tribute-Money," and the celebrated cartoon of "The 

 Miraculous Draught," his avocation is always conspicuously 

 represented. St. Zeno, bishop of Verona (said to have 

 been an enthusiastic angler), carries a fishing-rod in the 

 statue in the church at Verona, and in early pictures of the 

 Veronese school wears the habit of a bishop with a fish 

 hanging from the crook of his crozier. The picture by 

 Salvator Rosa of St. Anthony's fish-sermon is well known, 

 as is also the mosaic in St. Peter's, Rome, Naviculo di 

 Giotto, which represents St. Peter drawing his nets. The 

 same subject is engraved upon the Pope's ring, Vanello 

 del piscatore. An armed knight with his foot on a sea- 

 monster (a mediaeval variation of the zodiacal Water- 

 carrier) may, or may not, be St. Andrew of Scotland ; 

 while in another artistic representation of the heavenly 

 system, in which the Apostles take the place of the pagan 

 signs of the zodiac and Saints are used instead of the 

 mythical figures of the constellations, I find St. Matthias 

 paired off against the Fishes. 



In Astronomy the sea-things occupy their full share of 

 space, for among the principal constellations there are four 

 marine creatures as against seven quadrupeds and three 

 birds, and if we take the complete list the same proportion 

 is maintained. Their presence also in the zodiac gives us 

 one more link with the remotest past. Does not Proctor — 

 and with something more than mere surmise — read in the 

 configurations of the firmament the first suggestions of the 

 story of Noah's Flood ? and can we not by these recurrent 



