Sea mouse and worms
Date
1765
Creator
J Rhodius (Dutch) , Illustrator
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 405mm
width (print): 405mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine zoological studies of worms. Figures 1-4 Sea mouse Aphrodita aculeate, with details. Figure 5 the scale worm Lepidonotus squamatus (here styled Aphrodita squamatus). Figure 6 the worm Nereis pelagica.
Plate 6 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Tom. II. Liber II, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1765). The plate is inscribed above ‘TAB.VI’.
Job Baster (1711-1775) Dutch physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.
Plate 6 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Tom. II. Liber II, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1765). The plate is inscribed above ‘TAB.VI’.
Job Baster (1711-1775) Dutch physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.
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