Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11813

    Sea anemone

    Date
    1761
    Creator
    J Rhodius (Dutch) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 405mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Marine zoological studies of a sea anemones, possibly the Beadlet anemone Actinia equine. Figures 1-4 showing the stages of the anemone during opening and closing.

    Plate 13 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Liber tertius, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1761). The plate is inscribed above: ‘TAB XIII’ 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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