| Description | Roderick Impey MURCHISON, original artwork for images published as woodcut text figures in ‘Silurian System’, [c.1835-1838]. Almost all of the drawings are by Murchison but there are a few which are recorded in the 'Silurian System' as being by others, see list below:
Published, identified images:
Fig 12 – “Symon faults” of the Coal Brook Dale Coal-field
Fig 14 – Coral of the Carboniferous Limestone
Fig 16 – Coal and Basalt of the Clee Hills
Fig 22 – Silurian System, general descending section of (2 drafts)
Fig 25 – Wenlock Limestone, detailed section of
Fig 27 – Caradoc Sandstone, quarry of
Figs 29, 30, 31 – Dislocation of Ludlow Rocks
Fig 38 – Trap, Cambrian Rock in the Longmynd
Fig 42 – Eruptive trap rocks in the Corndon Hills
Fig 44 – Trap dyke and altered rocks in the Corndon Hills
Fig 46 – Trap rock of Nantcribba, Montgomeryshire, section
Fig 49 – Trap and altered rocks, Moel-y-golfa, Breidden Hills
Fig 52 – Nash Scar, Radnorshire, altered limestone of
Fig 59 - Trap and altered shale near Builth
Fig 60 – Trap and altered rocks near Builth
Fig 65 – Vale of the Towy, and Golden Grove, as seen from Dynevor Park near Llandeilo, by or after Charlotte Murchison
Fig 86 – Section of Volcanic Grit
Fig 88 – Arched strata and syenite, Malvern Hills (2 drafts)
Fig 90 – Wenlock Limestone dislocated on a line of volcanic fissure, ground plan
Fig 96 – Purton Passage on the Severn, showing arched strata upon an anticlinal line [page from Murchison field notebook LDGSL/839/74, July 1835]
Fig 98 – Trap rock near Tortworth
Figs 99-100 – Dudley coal-field, general relations of before and after elevation
Fig 102 – Wren’s Nest, Dudley, transverse section (2 drafts)
Fig 103 – Wren’s nest, Dudley, (southern end), view of, by or after the Reverend William Whewell [during a short tour with Adam Sedgwick and Murchison in 1832]
Fig 106 – Faults in the Dudley coal-field near the trap of Barrow Hill
Fig 107 – Gravel and sand near Shrewsbury, section of
Fig 108 – Sea-shells with sand and gravel near Shrewsbury (section)
Fig 111 – Raised beach, section of
Fig 112 – Modern Travertine of the “Southstone Rock”, Worcestershire by or after Charlotte Murchison [original pencil sketch in LDGSL/857/1/1]
Also 11 small sheets of unidentified/unpublished drawings. Some match up with the unpublished plates in LDGSL/860. One, of a small landscape annotated 'Looking N' may be by or after Charlotte Murchison as it is similar to fig 65. |