Periwinkle, sea anemone and jellyfish

    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 sea creatures. Figure 1 Common periwinkle, Littorina littorea (here styled Turbo littoreus). Figure 2 Sea anemone, possibly Calliactis parasitica (here styled Tertia priapi marini). Figures 3-4 Moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita (here styled Medusa cruciata). Figure 5-7 Comb jelly, Beroe ovata (here styled Medusa ovata) with unidentified specimens of jellyfish.

    Plate 14 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Liber tertius, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1761). The plate is inscribed above ‘TAB.XIV’ 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.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
    Credit
    ©The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.11814
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