Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871
Title:
The Silurian system : founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caernarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford : with descriptions of the coalfields and overlying formations / by Roderick Impey Murchison ... ; in two parts.
Published / Created:
London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1839.
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Lithographs by Day & Haghe, Andrew Picken, George Scharf, and Charles Joseph Hullmandel; after Mrs. Phillips, Thomas Webster, Lady Harriet Clive, Charlotte Murchison, Roderick Impey Murchison, and Charlotte Louisa Traherne.
Exhibition History:
“Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts (Yale Center for British Art, February 12, 2009-May 3, 2009)
Subject Terms:
Geology -- England -- Maps. | Geology -- Wales -- Maps. | Geology, Stratigraphic -- Silurian. | Murray, John -- Publisher. | Taylor, Richard and John E. -- Printer. | Holland, Frederick Dixon -- Provenance. | Monpellier Library (Cheltenham) -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1839. | Lithographs -- 1839. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1839. | Engravings -- 1839.
Contributors:
Gardner, J., engraver. | Day & Haghe, lithographer. | Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789–1850, lithographer. | Picken, Andrew, 1815–1845, lithographer. | Scharf, George, 1788–1860, lithographer. | Clive, Harriet Windsor, 1797–1869, ill. | Murchison, Charlotte, 1788–1869, ill. | Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792–1871, ill. | Phillips, Mrs., ill. | Traherne, Charlotte Louisa, -1880, ill. | Webster, Thomas, 1800–1886, ill.