Coral
Date
1761
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p95
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 207mm
width (paper): 222mm
width (paper): 222mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing of coral by J. Rhodius, for Job Baster, ‘On zoophytes’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 52 (1761), pp. 108-18, tab. 4.
Transcription
Fig. I, Fig. II, FIg. III
J. Rhodius ad vivum pinxit
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
J. Rhodius ad vivum pinxit
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Job Baster, ‘On zoophytes’, Phil. Trans., vol. 52 (1761), pp. 108-18, tab. 4. The figures are explained at p. 114, which also refers to John Ellis's descriptions of corals in the form of a fir tree.
Related fellows
Job Baster (1709 - 1775, Dutch) , Physician
Associated place