Copy of a Swainson lithograph of a shell, Achatina Marginata
Attributed to: William Henry Fox Talbot
Alternate titles
Copy of Plate 30, William Swainson, "Zoological Illustrations", vol. 1, 1820
This photographic copy of an illustration of a shell 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.