Sea creatures in glass : the Blaschka marine animals at Harvard
- Title
- Sea creatures in glass : the Blaschka marine animals at Harvard / Elizabeth R. Brill, Florian Huber ; photography by David O. Brown.
- Published by
- New York, NY : Scala Arts Publishers, Inc. ; Cambridge, MA : in association with Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, 2016.
- ©2016
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 112 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 23 x 23 cm
- Alternative title
- Blaschka marine animals at Harvard
- Subject
- Animal models in research > Pictorial works
- Marine invertebrates in art > Pictorial works
- Harvard Museum of Natural History Exhibitions
- Glass animals > Conservation and restoration
- Blaschka, Rudolf, 1857-1939
- Harvard University > Museum of Comparative Zoology > Natural history collections
- Biological models > Pictorial works
- Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895
- Glass animals > Pictorial works
- Marine invertebrates > Models > Pictorial works
- Contents
- Sea creatures in glass : the Blaschka marine animals at Harvard / James Hanken and Jane Pickering -- The Blaschka models of marine invertebrates / Florian Huber -- Attention to detail : restoring the collection of Blaschka marine invertebrates / Elizabeth R. Brill.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- Published at the culmination of a ten-year project at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology to curate, clean and repair all 430 of its glass animals, in conjunction with the establishment of a permanent exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. (Page 6).