| RefNo | PT/73/10/10 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, fossilised wolf jawbone by [William Clift] |
| Date | [1822] |
| Description | Plate 8, figures 2-3 showing two views of what Clift described as 'part of the lower jaw of a young wolf, in a diseased state from abscess.' Figure 2 inside view. Figure 3 exterior view. Found at Oreston Quarry, near Plymouth in Devon [England]. Inscribed with publication and plate details and pencil notes upper left 'Page 8 Young Wolf' and lower left [apparently in error] 'Fig 2. Outside view Fig 3 Inside view.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'J Whatman 1818'.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston' by Joseph Whidbey.
Read to the Royal Society on 6 February 1823. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink wash on paper |
| Dimensions | 231x187mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0204 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0011 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/16/9 |
| URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9894 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
| NA2833 | Whidbey; Joseph (1755 - 1833) | 1755 - 1833 |