Sujet

Specimens of Fossils recently found at Tingewick, Bucks., 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Specimens of Fossils recently found at Tingewick, Bucks., 1857. 'Mr. Stowe, surgeon, of Buckingham, upon washing some hundreds of the fossils, ascertained them to be marine vegetation, which, if it had not grown where it was found, had been washed out of the chalk range, as most of the fossils are striated or intersected by thin veins of chalk...the number of them is incalculable, as they extend over many square yards of the field, and are as thick in the clay in which they are found as pebbles in a street. Many of them are like biscuits, others like lilliputian mince-pies and oysters. Others are like roots of ginger and compressed mushrooms of all sizes - the smaller or button-shaped ones simulating the mince-pies, and the larger ones so like biscuits that at an evening party they were put on the supper-table and were taken for real biscuits'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A75_252

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

8,7Mo (640,5Ko) / 11,0cm x 19,8cm / 1297 x 2333 (300dpi)

Mots clés

science geology geological British color archaeology century archaeological Britain find chalk newspapers press fossils fossil archeology marine life B&W engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century