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Author:

Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology, issuing body.

Title:

Sea creatures in glass : the Blaschka marine animals at Harvard / Elizabeth R. Brill, Florian Huber ; photography by David O. Brown.

Publisher:

Scala Arts PublishersInc. ;

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

112 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 23 x 23 cm

Subject:

Blaschka, Leopold,--1822-1895.
Blaschka, Rudolf,--1857-1939.
Harvard University.--Museum of Comparative Zoology--Natural history collections.
Harvard Museum of Natural History--Exhibitions.
Marine invertebrates--Models--Pictorial works.
Marine invertebrates--In art--Pictorial works.
Biological models--Pictorial works.
Animal models in research--Pictorial works.
Glass animals--Pictorial works.
Glass animals--Conservation and restoration.

Other Authors:

Brill, Elizabeth R., author.
Huber, Florian, 1981- author.
Brown, David O. (David Owen), photographer.

Notes:

Published at the culmination of a ten-year project at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology to curate, clean and repair all 430 of its glass animals, in conjunction with the establishment of a permanent exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. (Page 6).

Contents:

Sea creatures in glass : the Blaschka marine animals at Harvard / James Hanken and Jane Pickering -- The Blaschka models of marine invertebrates / Florian Huber -- Attention to detail : restoring the collection of Blaschka marine invertebrates / Elizabeth R. Brill.

ISBN:

1785510436
9781785510434

OCLC:

(OCoLC)923650047

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)