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Image number: RS.10552
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‘Silex quartzum’
Date
1804
Creator
James Sowerby (1757 - 1822, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
R64216
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 233mm
width (print): 145mm
width (print): 145mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Two specimens of Hertfordshire puddingstone, here termed ‘Quartzose pudding stone’.
Plate 92 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R.Taylor & Co., 1804).
The accompanying text states that “This is not rare, in gravel-pits, in many counties of England; Hertfordshire is however most famous for producing it...Pudding stone is little known abroad, and is therefore esteemed in Germany, and other parts of the continent, as an English rarity.”
The plate is inscribed: “Septr. 1 1804. Published by Jas. Sowerby, London.”
Plate 92 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R.Taylor & Co., 1804).
The accompanying text states that “This is not rare, in gravel-pits, in many counties of England; Hertfordshire is however most famous for producing it...Pudding stone is little known abroad, and is therefore esteemed in Germany, and other parts of the continent, as an English rarity.”
The plate is inscribed: “Septr. 1 1804. Published by Jas. Sowerby, London.”
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