Fossil feathers and marine animals
Date
1804
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
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.
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.
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