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    Credit: ©Stephenson Family Estate
    Image number: RS.20471

    Crown of fan worm

    Date
    1928-1929
    Creator
    Thomas Alan Stephenson (1898 - 1961, British) , Marine biologist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Marine biological study of an unknown species of fan worm, of the Sabellidae family.

    From MS/940, a collection of biographical material associated with Sir Charles Maurice Yonge.

    Alan Thomas Stephenson (1898-1961), British marine biologist and artist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951.

    Sir Charles Maurice Yonge (1899-1986), British marine biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946.

    Yonge organised and oversaw the Great Barrier Reef expedition of 1928-1929, and Stephenson led the field reef research.
    Object history
    This artwork was exhibited at a memorial exhibition of Stephenson’s paintings in 1964. The exhibition had many venues, including London, Glasgow and Cardiff, and Charles Maurice Yonge is believed to have purchased it at one of these. It passed from Yonge to Brian Morton in 1989, who donated it to the Society in 2021.

    It is listed as item number 15 in 'An annotated catalogue of the marine biological paintings of Thomas Alan Stephenson (1898-1961)', R. B. Williams and P. G. Moore, Archives of natural history, 38.2 (2011)L 242-266.
    Related fellows
    Thomas Alan Stephenson (1898 - 1961, British) , Marine biologist
    Associated place
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