This object is part of Schaaf no. 515
Copy of a Swainson lithograph of a shell, Achatina Marginata
This photographic copy of an illustration of a seashell is plate 30 from William John Swainson's, “Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals: selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists”, London, 1820. The original scientific plates in Swainson’s publication were hand-coloured.
