Untitled: sponges
- Description
- This chalk drawing is by PH Gosse and was probably used as a teaching aid. It shows various species of sponge that can be found on the Uk’s coasts. It also shows the ‘spicules’ that form the internal structure of sponges.
- Accession Loan No.
- 809/1997/53
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- coloured chalks on paper painted black
- Common Name
- Untitled: sponges
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Full Name
- Untitled: sponges
- Dimensions
- image H 575 mm; image length 434 mm; total sheet H 608 mm; total sheet length 469 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
