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.

Terms of use

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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