Illustration featured in Ocean Gardens: The History of the Marine Aquarium (1857) by Henry Noel Humphreys.
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.
Also appearing in the essay…
Other works by the artist in the archive…
A Design for an Aquarium Mounted in Handsome Rustic-Work
Artist
Date
1857
From
Ocean Gardens: The History of the Marine Aquarium
