Paintings, Ocythoe cranchii [winged argonaut] by unknown artist
Reference number: PT/73/6/14
Date: 1817
Description
Plate 12 showing six views of the cephalopod Argonauta hians [winged argonaut], including details of arms and shell. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Observations on the genus of Ocythoë Rafinesque, with a description of a new species' by William Elford Leach.
Read to the Royal Society on 5 June 1817.
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- PT/73/6/14
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- 1817
- Physical description
- Watercolour on paper
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- 1 page
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- Painting
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William Elford Leach, Paintings, Ocythoe cranchii [winged argonaut] by unknown artist, 1817, PT/73/6/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_6_14/paintings-ocythoe-cranchii-winged-argonaut-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 07 December 2024
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Related Publications
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Observations on the genus Ocythoë of Rafinesque, with a description of a new species External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0066
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XXII. Observations on the genus of Ocythoë Rafinesque, with a description of a new species External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1817
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1817.0023
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Paper, 'Observations on the genus Ocythoë of Rafinesque with a description of a new species' by Wm [William] Elford Leach
Creator: William Elford Leach Reference number: PT/11/22
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 107
1816-1817 Reference number: PT/73/6
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William Elford Leach
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