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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
    James Queen (1824 - 1881, American) , Artist
    M. Lawson
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts_x167_10
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 264mm
    width (print): 200mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    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.”
    Object history
    Drawn on stone by James Queen after an original drawing by M. Lawson for Peter S. Duval (active 1831-1879).
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Asia
          > Philippines
    <The World>
       > Africa
          > Liberia
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