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Image number: RS.9818
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‘Helix spinulosa’ snail shell
Date
1785
Creator
John Agnew (British) , Gardener
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 225mm
width (painting): 184mm
width (painting): 184mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 2 figures 1-5 from the paper “An account of some minute British shells, either not duly observed, or totally unnoticed by Authors. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks...”, by John Lightfoot, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.76 (1786), pp.160-170.
Five figures of a land snail shell discovered upon old bricks and stones near Bullstrode in Buckinghamshire. Figures 1-2 show the shell at life size. Figures 3-5 are magnified views of the shell in different orientations.
John Lightfoot stated in his paper [p.168] that specimens were found “by Mr Agnew, Gardener to the late Duchess Dowager of Portland; by whose sagacity all the preceding shells were discovered, and by whose faithful pencil they were drawn”.
Inscribed in ink with the title and a numbered key to the figures. Not signed.
Five figures of a land snail shell discovered upon old bricks and stones near Bullstrode in Buckinghamshire. Figures 1-2 show the shell at life size. Figures 3-5 are magnified views of the shell in different orientations.
John Lightfoot stated in his paper [p.168] that specimens were found “by Mr Agnew, Gardener to the late Duchess Dowager of Portland; by whose sagacity all the preceding shells were discovered, and by whose faithful pencil they were drawn”.
Inscribed in ink with the title and a numbered key to the figures. Not signed.
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