Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10851

    ‘Sea anemones’

    Date
    c.1896
    Creator - Organisation
    After
    Comingio Merculiano (1845 - 1915, Italian) , Artist
    Giacomo Merculiano (1859 - 1935, Italian) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    51310
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 165mm
    width (print): 225mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Marine landscape with twenty-two varieties of sea-anemone and other creatures, including a hermit crab.

    Plate facing p.501 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.6 (Frederick Warne, London 1896).

    The plate has a tissue overlay to identify each animal insect with numbered captions. Signed lower left: ‘Merculiano pinx.’. Title appears below the image: ‘SEA ANEMONES’.

    Richard Lydekker (1849-1915) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894.
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