File:Pecten opercularis - Scallop - Philip Henry Gosse - 809 1997 54.jpg

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Philip Henry Gosse: Pecten opercularis - Scallop   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Philip Henry Gosse  (1810–1888)  wikidata:Q443062 s:en:Author:Philip Henry Gosse
 
Philip Henry Gosse
Alternative names
Gosse; P. H. Gosse
Description British botanist, naturalist, ornithologist, zoologist and writer
Date of birth/death 6 April 1810 Edit this at Wikidata 23 August 1888 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Worcester Edit this at Wikidata Torquay Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q443062
Title
Pecten opercularis - Scallop
Description
Enlarged drawing of a common British scallop (Aequipecten opercularis), with the valves of the shell partly open showing the eyes which shine like precious stones when they catch the light as the shell gapes. The filaments forming the mantle fringe are very sensitive organs of touch. This drawing is similar to the scallop depicted on plate 2 of PH Gosse’s book ‘A year at the shore’. Enlarged drawing of a common British Scallop (pecten opercularis), with the valves of the shell partly open showing the eyes and fringed edge of the mantle. The eyes shine like precious stones, and are placed along the edges of the mantle so as to catch the light when the shell gapes, and the filaments forming the mantle fringe are very sensitive organs of touch. Drawing by the late Philip Henry Gosse FRS.
Date 1850 to 1880
Medium coloured chalks on paper painted black
Dimensions 574 x 480 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7373646
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809/1997/54
Credit line Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Inscriptions pecten operc
Source/Photographer Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
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