M0008768: Andrias scheuchzeri, fossil of an extinct species of giant salamander

Date:
January 1943
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/76/77
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Credit

M0008768: <i>Andrias scheuchzeri</i>, fossil of an extinct species of giant salamander. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Evidence of the flood man

Description

Reproduction of an engraving by David Reding after a drawing by David Scheuchzer of the fossil originally published in Johann Jakob Scheuzcher: Homo Diluvii Testis (1726), where it was described as the remains of a human drowned in the Biblical flood. The reproduction is from an unknown publication.

Publication/Creation

January 1943

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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