Untitled: spotted cowrie
- Description
- This beautiful teaching slide created by PH Gosse is of the spotted cowrie which can be found on Devon’s coastlines. It shows the sea snail with its brightly coloured mantle partly covering the pale shell. Below is a diagram of the snail’s ‘teeth’ - scientifically this is known as the radula.
- Accession Loan No.
- 809/1997/12
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- paper collage on paper painted black
- Common Name
- Untitled: spotted cowrie
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Full Name
- Untitled: Trivia monacha: European cowrie: spotted cowrie
- Dimensions
- image H 571 mm; image length 446 mm; total sheet H 608 mm; total sheet length 478 mm
- Production Person Surname
- Gosse
- Production Person Initials
- Philip Henry
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Year Low
- 1850
- Production Year High
- 1880
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Family Group
