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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.

Reference number
PT/73/6/14
Earliest possible date
1817
Physical description
Watercolour on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Painting

Creator name

William Elford Leach

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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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