Fossils in flints
Date
1818-1822
Creator
Mary Ann Mantell (1795 - 1869, British) , Printmaker
Object type
Library reference
RCN54380
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 308mm
width (print): 217mm
width (print): 217mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Nine specimens of flint shaped by fossils of the glass sponge Ventriculites radiatus, collected in Sussex, England.
Plate 10 from the book The fossils of the South Downs; or illustrations of the geology of Sussex, by Gideon Algernon Mantell (London, Lupton Relfe, 1822).
Inscribed above ‘Tab X’. Inscribed below: ‘Mary Ann Mantell Sculpt. 1818’
The accompanying text states that: ‘So numerous are the accidental varieties of form assumed by the fossil remains of this species, that it is difficult to distinguish them correctly…The specimens enveloped in flint, are usually of a cyathiform, or turbinated shape (vide Tab.X)’.
Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852) surgeon and geologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825.
Plate 10 from the book The fossils of the South Downs; or illustrations of the geology of Sussex, by Gideon Algernon Mantell (London, Lupton Relfe, 1822).
Inscribed above ‘Tab X’. Inscribed below: ‘Mary Ann Mantell Sculpt. 1818’
The accompanying text states that: ‘So numerous are the accidental varieties of form assumed by the fossil remains of this species, that it is difficult to distinguish them correctly…The specimens enveloped in flint, are usually of a cyathiform, or turbinated shape (vide Tab.X)’.
Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852) surgeon and geologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825.
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