Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21137

    Fossil feathers and marine animals

    Date
    1804
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Five figures of fossils from Vestenanova, in the province of Verona, Italy. Figures 1-3 show fossil feathers; figure 4 a sea spider; and figure 5 a marine crustacean.

    Plate 6, illustrating the paper: ‘Memoir on some rare fossils of Vestena Nova, in the Veronais, not yet described, which were given to the Museum of Natural History at Paris by M. De Gazola. By Faujas-Saint-Fond’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.19, (1803-1804) pp.263-267.

    Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.VI. Vol.XIX.’. Inscribed below: ‘Fossils of Vestina nova in the Veronais. 75’.

    Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819), French geologist and volcanologist.

    Count Giambattista Gazola (1757-1834), Italian aristocrat and collector, who amassed collections of Tertiary period fish from Bolca.
    Associated place
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