Volute & Murex Shells | Original Hand-Colored Shell Engraving – Captain Thomas Brown, Plate VI | c. 1840 lithograph Published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell

Published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell

Offered on an unstretched canvas

" The legend of the Western Hemisphere map reads: "Painted in quaint Sixteenth Century style

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Volute & Murex Shells | Original Hand-Colored Shell Engraving – Captain Thomas Brown, Plate VI | c. 1840 lithograph Published by Samuel Augustus MitchellAn original antique hand colored copper engraving from Captain Thomas Brown's Illustrations of the Land and Fresh Water Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, one of the classic natural history books of the 19th century. This plate appears to depict a variety of marine gastropods (sea snails), rather than a single species. Center (largest shell): a Volute (Voluta or Melo species). Lower left & lower right: Murex Rock shells (family Muricidae),