Featured on PDR in the essay Bringing the Ocean Home

Bernd Brunner on the English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse and how his 1854 book The Aquarium, complete with spectacular illustrations and a dizzy dose of religious zeal, sparked a craze for the “ocean garden” that gripped Victorian Britain.

Other works by the artist in the archive…

The Ancient Wrasse

Artist

Date

1856

From

The Aquarium


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Public Domain Worldwide

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