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Image number: RS.9915
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Land 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
Eleven specimens of Helix and other snail shells, numbered 9-19 largely from the Philippine Islands with one specimen (fig.12) from Liberia, Africa. Figure 9 Helix blandingiana. Figure 10 Helix balestieriana. Figure 11 Helix lamarckiana. Figure 12 Helix cuvieriana. Figure 13 Helix luteo-fasciata. Figure 14 Helix cepoides. Figure 15 Helix blainvilliana. Figure 16 Helix humphreysiana. Figure 17 Helix ferruginea. Figure 18 Carocolla bifasciata. Figure 19 Cyclostoma woodiana.
Plate 12 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 12 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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