Caption
Photo reproduction of drawings of the worms Teredo Navalis and Lycoris Fucata by Pieter Harting, photograph, reproduction, signature: 'B. Crolet', annotation: 'Photographie d'un dessin de Mr Harting, Membre de l'Académie Royale des Pays-Bas, tiré de Verslag, over den Paalworm, Published by the Physics Department of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam. CG van der Post. 1860.', photographer: B. Crolet (possibly), France, after design by Pieter Harting, in or before 1867, paper, pasteboard, albumen print, albumendruk, height 332 mm x width 441 mm, drawing, sketch, worms, A large antique illustration on a pale background shows multiple detailed monochrome drawings of shell-like and tubular anatomical forms arranged across the page, with a prominent large ridged, curved, layered shell structure near the center-right and smaller segmented, rounded, and tubular components distributed to the left and bottom; the drawings display fine line shading and stippling to indicate texture and curvature, and there is a column of densely spaced handwritten notes or annotations aligned along the right edge.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A77_109
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Rights managed
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49.0Mb (6.4Mb) / 16.1in x 11.8in / 4821 x 3550 (300dpi)