Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Publication

• New York, NY : Scala Arts Publishers, Inc. ; Cambridge, MA : in association with Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, 2016.
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

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

Description

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

Alternative Title

Blaschka marine animals at Harvard

Subjects

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

Note

• 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

• ocn923650047
• 923650047
• SCSB-5876708

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries