Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8652
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Ocythoe cranchii [winged argonaut]
Date
1817
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Dimensions
height (painting): 288mm
width (painting): 229mm
width (painting): 229mm
Subject
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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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