Cyanea capillata: lion’s mane jellyfish (drawing)
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888)Licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Descriptions
This unfinished watercolour by Philip Henry Gosse depicts the lion’s mane jellyfish. In pencil Gosse has written ‘This I never finished as I got disgusted with the failure to produce the brilliant transparent purple of the original’.
This object is not on display.
Inscription
centre bottom in ink entitled Cyanea capillata
lower right pencil inscribed This I never finished as I got disgusted with the failure to produce the brilliant transparent purple of the original
top left in ink B
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