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Sea creatures in glass : the Blaschka marine animals at Harvard

Title
  1. Sea creatures in glass : the Blaschka marine animals at Harvard / Elizabeth R. Brill, Florian Huber ; photography by David O. Brown.
Published by
  1. New York, NY : Scala Arts Publishers, Inc. ; Cambridge, MA : in association with Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, 2016.
  2. ©2016
Author
  1. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology, issuing body.

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Additional authors
  1. Brill, Elizabeth R.
  2. Huber, Florian, 1981-
  3. Brown, David O. (David Owen)
Description
  1. 112 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 23 x 23 cm
Alternative title
  1. Blaschka marine animals at Harvard
Subject
  1. Marine invertebrates > In art > Pictorial works
  2. Glass animals > Pictorial works
  3. Blaschka, Rudolf, 1857-1939
  4. Marine invertebrates > Models > Pictorial works
  5. Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895
  6. Biological models > Pictorial works
  7. Glass animals > Conservation and restoration
  8. Harvard University > Museum of Comparative Zoology > Natural history collections
  9. Harvard Museum of Natural History Exhibitions
  10. Animal models in research > Pictorial works
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. JQE 17-198
Note
  1. 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).
Author
  1. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology, issuing body.
Title
  1. Sea creatures in glass : the Blaschka marine animals at Harvard / Elizabeth R. Brill, Florian Huber ; photography by David O. Brown.
Publisher
  1. New York, NY : Scala Arts Publishers, Inc. ; Cambridge, MA : in association with Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, 2016.
Copyright date
  1. ©2016
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Added author
  1. Brill, Elizabeth R., author.
  2. Huber, Florian, 1981- author.
  3. Brown, David O. (David Owen), photographer.
ISBN
  1. 1785510436
  2. 9781785510434
Research call number
  1. JQE 17-198
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