"Parasitic Anemone", from The Aquarium (1856, 2nd edition).
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.
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Parasitic Anemone
Artist
Date
1856
From
The Aquarium
