Paintings, Helix janthina [marine snail] by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Description

Plate 13 showing seven figures including details of the shell of the Helix janthina [Janthina janthina, or marine snail] with magnified images of ova and internal chambers. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer. del.' 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/73/6/15

Earliest possible date

1817

Physical description

Watercolour on artists' board

Page extent

1 page

Format

Watercolour

Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library

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