For #WorldOysterDay 🦪:
Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916) Oyster, c.1900-10 Drawing, brush w/ transparent & opaque watercolor over black chalk on paper, 8 15/16 x 5 1/2 in.; 22.7013 x 13.97 cm Smith College Museum of Art SC 1954.36
Today is also #WorldOysterDay 🦪 - on a #MolluscMonday !
“Denticulated Oyster” (Striostrea denticulata)
illustration by R. P. Nodder in George Shaw’s The naturalist's miscellany Vol. 16, London, 1804-5
Via BHL
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