‘The smooth anemone’
Date
1854
Creator
Nicholas Hanhart (British) , Printmaker
After
Philip Henry Gosse (1810 - 1888, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
41386
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 136mm
width (print): 86mm
width (print): 86mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Underwater scene showing the smooth anemone identified by the illustrator as Actinia mesembryanthemum (now Actinia equina?). The sea anemone is shown with seaweed and a marine snail.
The author sees these creatures under Byng Cliff near Weymouth, Dorset. The accompanying text reads: ‘I walked our upon the low ledge, marked with the long ribbon-like leaves of the Zostera, green and glossy, growing in beds in the pools and nooks that indent the ledges, and the purple tufts of mossy sea-weed that fringe the dark hollows of the rock; turned over a few stones and saw colonies of the plump and fruit-like smooth Anemone (Actinia mesembryanthemum) of various hues, adhering to their sides...’
Plate 2 from the book The aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea, by Phillip Henry Gosse (Van Voorst, London, 1854). Inscribed: ‘Pl.II. P.H.Gosse, delt. Hanhart, Chromo lith. THE SMOOTH ANEMONE &c.’
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) was a populariser of marine biology and an aquarium inventor elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856.
The author sees these creatures under Byng Cliff near Weymouth, Dorset. The accompanying text reads: ‘I walked our upon the low ledge, marked with the long ribbon-like leaves of the Zostera, green and glossy, growing in beds in the pools and nooks that indent the ledges, and the purple tufts of mossy sea-weed that fringe the dark hollows of the rock; turned over a few stones and saw colonies of the plump and fruit-like smooth Anemone (Actinia mesembryanthemum) of various hues, adhering to their sides...’
Plate 2 from the book The aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea, by Phillip Henry Gosse (Van Voorst, London, 1854). Inscribed: ‘Pl.II. P.H.Gosse, delt. Hanhart, Chromo lith. THE SMOOTH ANEMONE &c.’
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) was a populariser of marine biology and an aquarium inventor elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856.
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