Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Plates of shells from William Turton’s 1840 work “A Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British Islands.” Someone else I found out about visiting them at the antiquarian fair in Boston last month.
Plate III, figures 14 through 27. Page 331. Collection of the University of California Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60677#page/331/mode/1upPlate IV, figures 30 through 43. Page 333. Collection of the University of California Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60677#page/333/mode/1upPlate VI, figures 61 through 74. Page 337. Collection of the University of California Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60677#page/337/mode/1upPlate IX, figures 101 through 112. Page 343. Collection of the University of California Libraries. In the public domain due to age. viahttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60677#page/343/mode/1up
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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