Cyanea capillata: lion’s mane jellyfish
This unfinished watercolour by Philip Henry Gosse depicts the lion’s mane jellyfish. In pencil Gosse has written ‘This I never finished as I got disgusted with the failure to produce the brilliant transparent purple of the original’.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 114/1920/20
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Common Name
- Cyanea capillata: lion’s mane jellyfish
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Inscription Transcription
- Cyanea capillata; This I never finished as I got disgusted with the failure to produce the brilliant transparent purple of the original; B
- Production Town
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Person Initials
- Philip Henry
- Production Person Surname
- Gosse
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
