Saltwater clam, snail and jellyfish
Date
1765
Creator
J Rhodius (Dutch) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 405mm
width (print): 405mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Anatomical studies of marine creatures: Figures 1-3 Saltwater clam, possibly the Sand gaper Mya arenaria. Figure 4 unidentified snail, here styled Turbo stagnalis. Figure 5 small jellyfish, life-sized and magnified by microscope.
Plate 7 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Tom. II. Liber II, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1765). The plate is inscribed above ‘TAB.VII’.
Job Baster (1711-1775) Dutch physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.
Plate 7 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Tom. II. Liber II, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1765). The plate is inscribed above ‘TAB.VII’.
Job Baster (1711-1775) Dutch physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.
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