Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13379

    Fossils in flint and chalk

    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
    Subject
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    Description
    Six specimens of flints and chalks bearing fossils of the glass sponges Ventriculites radiates. Collected in Sussex, England.

    Plate 13 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 XIII’. Inscribed below: ‘Mary Ann Mantell Sculpt.’

    Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852) surgeon and geologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825.
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