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Shells

Images

  • The risen Christ shares supper with two men at Emmaus. Engraving.
  • An abalone shell covered in flaky brown seaweed. Watercolour.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • The British Museum: the Zoological Gallery, crowded with holiday visitors. Wood engraving, 1845.
  • The risen Christ shares supper with two men at Emmaus. Etching by R. Delaunay after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Die Kontroverse von R.A.F. de Réaumur und J. Th. Klein über Bau und Wachstum der Schneckenschalen / von A. Geus.

    Geus, Armin. | Date: 1978
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Abraham Vater. Line engraving by J. M. Bernigeroth, 1752.

    | Date: 1752 | Reference: 9362i
    • Books

    Shell collecting : an illustrated history / S. Peter Dance.

    Dance, S. Peter. | Date: 1966
    • Pictures

    Two Samoan women, seated in a domestic setting, wearing grass skirts, one with seashell necklece.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 540988i
    Part of: Hawaiian and Samoan portraits.
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    A woman holding a compass and a square rule; representing architecture. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.

    Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583. | Date: 1560 | Reference: 25881i
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