Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10852

    ‘Glass sponges’

    Date
    c.1896
    Creator - Organisation
    After
    Etzold, Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    51310
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 225mm
    width (print): 165mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Marine biological study of varieties of hexactinellid sponges known as glass sponges.

    Plate facing p.537 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.6 (Frederick Warne, London 1896).

    Signed by the artist lower left ‘Dr.Etzold comp’. Title appears below the image: ‘GLASS SPONGES’.

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