Shore crab: Carcinus
This illustration by PH Gosse was probably used as a teaching aid. It shows enlarged drawings of the common shore crab’s sensory organs - antenna (left) and antennule (right).
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 809/1997/22
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- coloured chalks and white gouache on paper painted black
- Common Name
- Shore crab: Carcinus
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Inscription Transcription
- Shore crab; Carcinus; Smell, Hearing
- 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
