Scene of Actinoloba in a lithographic print by William Dickes based on a drawing by Philip Henry Gosse, featured in Actinologia Britannica: A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals (1860).
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…
Actinoloba
Artist
Date
1860
From
Actinologia Britannica
Source
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive / Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
