Stunning Cone Shells, Volute, Voluta. hand-coloured engraving c1835.

Cone Shells antique print,Histoire Naturelle; Coquilles Univalves.

 

Original copperplate engraving with contemporary hand-colour by Benard after a drawing by Marechal, published in Paris c.1835 for Histoire naturelle générale et particuliere de tous les genres de coquilles univalves marines (General and specific natural history of all the kinds of univalve sea shells) by P.L. Duclos (student of Lamarck).