AN EXHIBITION of prints from hand-coloured engravings is to open in Kimmeridge for the next month.
Dorset Wildlife Trust's Wild Seas Centre will be open from Saturday, September 3 to Sunday, October 2.
The exhibition will showcase artworks by anonymous artists and hand colourists from that period which appeared in the first edition of The Naturalists Library by Sir William Jardine, the Scottish naturalist.
Images from the book which has belonged to the same family since it was originally published in 1840 were digitally restored during the recent lockdowns.
Julie Hatcher, marine awareness officer at the Wild Seas Centre, said: “This exhibition is unlike anything we’ve hosted before.
“Kimmeridge is a good place for this exhibition because the famous Clavell Tower was built at around the same time that the Naturalist’s Library was published.
“Sir William Jardine also spent time in Dorset and stayed in Weymouth where he hunted for fossils on the nearby coastline.”
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