Shells D Distance 05 of 12
Precious
wentletrap
Epitonium scalare
The whorls never touch. Only the ribs hold the shell together.
- W widening
- 2
- D distance
- 0.22
- T travel
- 2.65
- S shape
- round
- turns
- 6.2
The settings our model uses to draw it, tuned by eye against photographs.
The real shell · 25–72 mm
In the 17th and 18th centuries it was thought very rare and sold for large sums.
Cosimo III de' Medici owned one.
- Lives
- Red Sea and Indian Ocean to Fiji and Japan
- In the exhibition
- Room 2, Four numbers: one of three shells for D, how far from the axis.