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RefNoPT/73/6/14
LevelItem
TitlePaintings, Ocythoe cranchii [winged argonaut] by unknown artist
Date[1817]
DescriptionPlate 12 showing six views of the cephalopod Argonauta hians [winged argonaut], including details of arms and shell. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Observations on the genus of Ocythoë Rafinesque, with a description of a new species' by William Elford Leach.

Read to the Royal Society on 5 June 1817.
Extent1p
FormatPainting
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour on paper
Dimensions288x229mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0066
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1817.0023
RelatedRecordPT/11/22
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8652
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7442Leach; William Elford (1790 - 1836)1790 - 1836
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