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Image number: RS.9914
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Freshwater snail shells
Date
1840
Creator
Peter S. Duval (1809, American) , Lithographer
After
Object type
Library reference
Tracts_x167_10
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 264mm
width (print): 200mm
width (print): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Eight specimens of Bulimus snail shells, numbered 1-8, largely from the Philippine Islands with one specimen (fig.4) from Liberia, Africa. Figure 1 Bulimus subglobosus. Figure 2 Bulimus virido-striatus. Figure 3 Bulimus virgineus. Figure 4 Bulimus liberianus. Figure 5 Bulimus woodianus. Figure 6 Bulimus gracilis. Figure 7 Bulimus carinatus. Figure 8 Bulimus bicoloratus.
Plate 11 from the paper “Description of nineteen new species of Colimacea”, by Isaac Lea, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, second series, vol.7 (1841), pp.455-466. Inscribed below: “M.Lawson pinxt. P.S.Duval, Lith. Phila. On stone by Jas. Queen.”
Plate 11 from the paper “Description of nineteen new species of Colimacea”, by Isaac Lea, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, second series, vol.7 (1841), pp.455-466. Inscribed below: “M.Lawson pinxt. P.S.Duval, Lith. Phila. On stone by Jas. Queen.”
Object history
Drawn on stone by James Queen after an original drawing by M. Lawson for Peter S. Duval (active 1831-1879).
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