Sea anemones

Marine landscape with twenty-two varieties of sea-anemone and other creatures, including a hermit crab.

Plate facing p.501 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.6 (Frederick Warne, London 1896).

The plate has a tissue overlay to identify each animal insect with numbered captions. Signed lower left: ‘Merculiano pinx.’. Title appears below the image: ‘SEA ANEMONES’.

Richard Lydekker (1849-1915) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894.