Limnias melicerta: rotifer
This chalk drawing by PH Gosse was probably used as a teaching aid. It depicts a species of rotifer (Limnias melicerta) or ‘wheel animal’. PH Gosse wrote a book with CT Hudson titled ‘'The Rotifera or Wheel-Animalcules’’.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 809/1997/64
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- coloured chalks and white gouache on paper painted black
- Common Name
- Limnias melicerta: rotifer
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Inscription Transcription
- Melicerta
- 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
