Latrobe's Essay on Landscape, vol. 2, Barnacle Vignette

Benjamin Henry Latrobe1798/1799

Library of Virginia
Richmond, VA, United States

Latrobe's rendering of a Goose Barnacle attached to a piece of shipwreck. In Volume Two, he writes in detail about the blurred line of animal vs. plant life. "The former can quit his residence, the latter is bound to the earth." The barnacle, however, is a "trifling exception."

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Title: Latrobe's Essay on Landscape, vol. 2, Barnacle Vignette
Creator: Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Date: 1798/1799
Location: Richmond, Va.
Publisher: Licensed under Creative Commons by Library of Virginia (CCBY)
Original Source: An Essay on Landscape, Explained in Tinted Drawings

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