Mollusca Paint-by-Number
Published in 1852, Augustus Addison Gould’s Mollusca & Shells, in which this delicate clam is found, remains a monument to the earnest ambitions of nineteenth-century American science — cataloging with fastidious care the teeming, intricate life dredged from distant shores by the United States Exploring Expedition. Gould, a physician by training and a conchologist by passion, offers not merely a taxonomic ledger but a quiet testament to the age’s belief that to classify the natural world was, in some small way, to understand it.
• 16" x 20"
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan
Published in 1852, Augustus Addison Gould’s Mollusca & Shells, in which this delicate clam is found, remains a monument to the earnest ambitions of nineteenth-century American science — cataloging with fastidious care the teeming, intricate life dredged from distant shores by the United States Exploring Expedition. Gould, a physician by training and a conchologist by passion, offers not merely a taxonomic ledger but a quiet testament to the age’s belief that to classify the natural world was, in some small way, to understand it.
• 16" x 20"
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan
Published in 1852, Augustus Addison Gould’s Mollusca & Shells, in which this delicate clam is found, remains a monument to the earnest ambitions of nineteenth-century American science — cataloging with fastidious care the teeming, intricate life dredged from distant shores by the United States Exploring Expedition. Gould, a physician by training and a conchologist by passion, offers not merely a taxonomic ledger but a quiet testament to the age’s belief that to classify the natural world was, in some small way, to understand it.
• 16" x 20"
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan