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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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