- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Washington Teasdale
- Provenance
- Presented by the Executors of G. H. Gabb in 1949.
- Primary inscriptions
- Inscribed on back: 'Nummilitic Limestone | Dudley'.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 72mm Width: 98mm
- Inventory No
- 84273
- Accession Number
- 1949-10
Description
Cyanotype (blueprint) positive. A composite limestone fossil (a stone with many embedded shells etc.). The scale within the image (a six-inch ruler) bears Teasdale's masonic monogram and motto 'Spero Meliora'. Companion of 91609 and 99707.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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