250 Years of Medusae Drawing

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GNSI 2000 Portugal: International Conference & Annual Meeting July 30 - August 07 2000 in Évora, Lisboa and Sagres, Portugal.

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Cyaena arctica
Péron & Lesueur. Lithograph drawn by A. Sonrel printed by L.H. Bradford, for L. Agassiz, Contributions to the natural history of the United States, vol. 3 (1860). Plate 3: 58.5 X 25 cm

19th Century Drawings.
2000 © Jordi Corbera, Francesc Pages,
and Josep Maria Gili

During the 19th century, after the explosion of lithography, the illustrated works on medusae proliferated, outstanding the following: "Le Règne Animale distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'Histoire Naturelle des animaux, et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée" by A. Milne-Edwards (1837) (Fig. 2), engraved by Schmels, Forget and Visto from drawings of Milne Edwards, Lesueur and others, "Histoire Naturelle des Zoophytes; Acalephes" by R.P. Lesson (1843), engraved by Corbie and Gousset from drawings of Prête, "A monograph of the naked-eyed medusae" by E. Forbes (1848) with lithographs of C.R. Bone and W.H. Bailey from drawings of the author, and "Contributions to the natural history of the United States" by L. Agassiz (1857-62) drawn mostly on stone by A. Sonrel, H.J. Clark and J. Burkhardt (Fig. 3). However, the great naturalist Ernst Haeckel stands out among all of them. He published "Das System der Medusen" (1879-80) and "Report on the deep-sea medusae dredged by HMS Challenger during 1873-76" (1881) both with lithographs from drawings by the author and A. Giltsch that probably show the most spectacular drawings of these animals. (below center)

Pelagia noctiluca
(1837)
Thamnostylus dinema
(1881)
Tropical Pacific Medusae
(1902)

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