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Nautilus Shell

Orra White Hitchcock, 1828 – 1840

Nautilus Shell, Orra White Hitchcock

Nautilus Shell, zoomed in

51 cm

Nautilus Shell scale comparison

67 cm

Nautilus Shell is an Enlightenment Pen, Ink and Linen Drawing created by Orra White Hitchcock from c.1828 to 1840. It lives at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections in the United States. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Cross Sections. Source Download See Nautilus Shell in the Kaleidoscope

Drawing of Strata, Christiania (Oslo), Norway, Orra White Hitchcock

Drawing of Strata, Christiania (Oslo), Norway

Plesiosaurus Skeleton, Orra White Hitchcock

Plesiosaurus Skeleton

Slate, Devon, England, Orra White Hitchcock

Slate, Devon, England

Art Forms in Nature, Plate 17: Siphonophorae, Ernst Haeckel

Art Forms in Nature, Plate 17: Siphonophorae

Ernst Haeckel, 1904

Aspidium Lobatium, Anna Atkins

Aspidium Lobatium

Anna Atkins, 1853

Plate 21. Maryland Yellow-Throat, Genevieve Jones

Plate 21. Maryland Yellow-Throat

Genevieve Jones, 1879 – 1886

Waves - Creative Force, Wenzel Hablik

Waves - Creative Force

Wenzel Hablik, 1909

A map of the Arno valley and surrounding areas, Leonardo da Vinci

A map of the Arno valley and surrounding areas

Leonardo da Vinci, 1503 – 1504

Contortions in Mica Slate, Whately, Massachusetts, Orra White Hitchcock

Contortions in Mica Slate, Whately, Massachusetts

Self-Portrait as Drowned Man, Hippolyte Bayard

Self-Portrait as Drowned Man

Hippolyte Bayard, 1840

Detail of the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey, William Henry Fox Talbot

Detail of the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey

William Henry Fox Talbot, 1840

View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia, Robert Cornelius

View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia

Robert Cornelius, 1840

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