Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9358
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Fossil shell “Homonolatus knightii”
Date
1840s
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 240mm
width (painting): 163mm
width (painting): 163mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of a shell inscribed below, in ink: "Cast of Homonolatus Knightii upper Ludlow Rock near Shobden, Hertfordshire". Not signed or dated.
From papers of the naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790-1872).
From papers of the naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790-1872).
Associated place