'Silex arenacea' mb-code DCA_102848 Sandro (1445-1510)

Sandro (1445-1510)

'La Ghirlandata'

A large muff with a band of brocade

The plate is headed 'LIFE BOAT CXI

Dogs sniff eachother in the foreground

'Silex arenacea' mb-code DCA_102848 Sandro (1445-1510)Fossil shells in sandstone, here termed 'calcereous sandstone'. Plate 15 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R. Taylor & Co., 1804). The accompanying text states that 'Masses of this were found at near twelve feet deep in a lightly gravel stratum, in cutting the canal at the Isle of Dogs' The plate is inscribed: 'Feb. 1 1803. Published by Jas. Sowerby,