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    Image number: RS.8652
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    Ocythoe cranchii [winged argonaut]

    Date
    1817
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 288mm
    width (painting): 229mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Plate 12 from the paper "Observations on the genus Ocythoe of Rafinesque, with a description of a new species" by William Elford Leach, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.293-296. Six views of the cephalopod Argonauta hians, including details of arms and shell. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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