Venus's flower basket Product:Greetings card London in 1832

London in 1832

Following France's disastrous war against Prussia

Behind him are his supporters

with a curtain or drape behind

South west view of St Mary

Venus's flower basket Product:Greetings card London in 1832Study of the sponge Euplectella aspergillum, known as Venus's flower basket. The sponge became a novelty and a wedding gift in Victorian England since it was frequently home to a pairing of male and female shrimps. Plate from the monograph On Euplectella aspergillum. Also on a new form of globigerina; phosphorescent animalcules, by William Chimmo (London, Taylor and Francis, 1878). The plate is not inscribed. William Chimmo (1828 1891) Royal Navy