'Silex quartzum' Size:M: 90 x 40cm Original is oil on panel

Original is oil on panel 17 1/4x13 5/8 (inches)

1900 (1902)

William Funnell acted as Mate aboard the vessel St George

Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter

'Silex quartzum' Size:M: 90 x 40cm Original is oil on panelEight specimens of flint pebbles, generally split or sectioned, from various locations including from near London and from Norwich in Norfolk. Plate 88 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R. Taylor & Co., 1804). The accompanying text states that 'Flint pebbles, so universally known in the vicinity of London, are not so well known everywhere The forms