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Galatea riding a scallop shell chariot over the seas accompanied by Neptune, nymphs and cherubs, symbolising the element water. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.

The British Museum: the Coral Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.

A man with coral, shells, fish, and a book. Oil painting by a German (?) painter, 17th (?) century.

Indian coral merchant selling jewelry to a woman. Gouache drawing.

Venus riding a scallop shell chariot over the seas accompanied by Neptune, nymphs and cherubs, symbolising the element water. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.

A coral. Coloured etching.

Corallina, or, A classical arrangement of flexible coralline polypidoms / selected from the French of J. V. F. Lamouroux.

A history of the British sea-anemones and corals / by Philip Henry Gosse.

De coralliis / [Joannes Hieronymus Stein].

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Corallina, or, A classical arrangement of flexible coralline polypidoms / selected from the French of J. V. F. Lamouroux.

The British Museum: the Coral Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.

A history of the British sea-anemones and corals / by Philip Henry Gosse.

De coralliis / [Joannes Hieronymus Stein].

A history of the British sea-anemones and corals / by Philip Henry Gosse.