Thanks for sharing Jon! It was great to discuss it with you all.

Watercolor on vellum. Six studies of shells, from an album of 79 drawings entitled 'Roberts's Drawings of Plants, Birds, Shells Vol.I'; includes four limpet-type shells seen from above.

Six studies of shells. Drawing by Nicholas Robert (1614-1685). © The Trustees of the British Museum. 🐚 #MolluscMonday #SciArt 🦑 🌿

Anyone going to be at the British Library this week and willing to photograph two pages from a catalogue bound in a book in Rare Books and Manuscripts for me, in exchange for some ££? Photographed it years ago for research reference and appear to have missed pp. 4-5, argh.

Metropolitan Science: London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800 Join us at The London Archives as Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin talk us through their new publication.

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