Sujet
Sea Anemones in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's-Park, 1854. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Sea Anemones in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's-Park, 1854. Aquatic life at London Zoo. 'From the...background rises up a tall, massive, furrowed stem - from four to six inches high, and of proportionate circumference, crowned, palm like, with a tuft of multitudinous tentacles, reminding us of some grotesque vegetable production of the river-banks of Australia...It reminds us of the head of Medusa, with its tresses of convoluted snakes...Sea Anemones, if carefully disengaged from the rocks to which they adhere by a basal sucker, may be put into a bowl of sea-water (renewed daily), and will live for a considerable time - affording an object of the highest interest...they will take food freely, swallowing crabs and shell-fish, marine insects, and small fishes...Their mode of taking food is by enfolding it in their rainbow-tinted arms and gradually forcing it into the mouth...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM22B08_204
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
27,6Mo (2,3Mo) / 30,0cm x 23,1cm / 3545 x 2723 (300dpi)