Untitled: spotted cowrie
This beautiful teaching slide created by PH Gosse is of the spotted cowrie which can be found on Devon’s coastlines. It shows the sea snail with its brightly coloured mantle partly covering the pale shell. Below is a diagram of the snail’s ‘teeth’ - scientifically this is known as the radula.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 809/1997/12
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- paper collage on paper painted black
- Common Name
- Untitled: spotted cowrie
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Person Initials
- Philip Henry
- Production Person Surname
- Gosse
- Production Year Low
- 1850
- Production Year High
- 1880
