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Sea anemones
Giacomo Merculiano1896
The Royal Society
London, United Kingdom
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.
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Details
- Title: Sea anemones
- Creator: Comingio Merculiano (1845 - 1915), Giacomo Merculiano (1859 - 1935), after
- Date Created: 1896
- Rights: The Royal Society, 2021
- External Link: To license this image please visit the Royal Society Picture Library
- Catalogue Reference: RCN51310
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