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Thomas Webster

Scottish geologist

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Images by Thomas Webster

5 images from works
  • Geology: a long section through mountains, and a volcano, showing strata, and, above, classes of animals. Coloured engraving by J. Fisher after T. Webster and F. Buckland.
  • Fossilised dinosaur bones (?). Engraving with etching by J. Basire after T. Webster, 1810/1830?.
  • Geology: a long section through mountains, and a volcano, showing strata, and, above, classes of animals. Coloured engraving by J. Fisher after T. Webster and F. Buckland.
  • Cross-section of a lead mine in Derbyshire, showing miners working towards an animal fossil. Lithograph by T. Webster after a sketch by W. Buckland.
  • African workers washing for diamonds in Brazil. Etching after T. Webster after J. Mawe, 1815.

Works from the collections

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    Cross-section of a lead mine in Derbyshire, showing miners working towards an animal fossil. Lithograph by T. Webster after a sketch by W. Buckland.

    William Buckland | Date: [1822?] | Reference: 42479i
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    Geology: a long section through mountains, and a volcano, showing strata, and, above, classes of animals. Coloured engraving by J. Fisher after T. Webster and F. Buckland.

    Thomas Webster | Reference: 46742i
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    Elements of science and art: being a familiar introduction to natural philosophy and chemistry, together with their application to a variety of elegant and useful arts / By John Imison.

    John Imison | Date: 1822
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    An encyclopaedia of domestic economy comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with housekeeping : as, the construction of domestic edifices ... duties of servants, the general account of the animal and vegetable substances used as food ... making bread ... preservation of health ; domestic medicine &c. &c. / by Thomas webster ; assisted by the late Mrs. Parkes.

    Thomas Webster | Date: 1844
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    African workers washing for diamonds in Brazil. Etching after T. Webster after J. Mawe, 1815.

    John Mawe | Date: 29 July 1815 | Reference: 30997i
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