Starfish and barnacles
Date
1761
Creator
J Rhodius (Dutch) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 405mm
width (print): 405mm
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Content object
Description
Marine zoological studies of sea creatures. Figures 1-6 Starfish, or Sea-stars, Asteroidea. Figures 7-10 Barnacles, Balanidae. Each set of figures has details of anatomical structures, some under magnification, viewed by microscope.
Plate 12 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Liber tertius, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1761). The plate is inscribed above: ‘TAB XII’; and below ‘J. Rhodius ad viv. pinxit.’
Job Baster (1711-1775) Dutch physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.
Plate 12 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Liber tertius, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1761). The plate is inscribed above: ‘TAB XII’; and below ‘J. Rhodius ad viv. pinxit.’
Job Baster (1711-1775) Dutch physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.
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