| RefNo | PT/75/3/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, spathose guard and crushed phragmocone of Belemnites owenii by unknown artist |
| Date | [1844] |
| Description | Plate 2, figure 1 showing a fossilised spathose guard and crushed phragmocone of a Belemnites owenii. Rough pencil outlines of the other illustrations that were printed on the same plate surround the painting. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Embossed stamp top right corner reads 'Bristol Paper'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'A description of certain Belemnites, preserved, with a great proportion of their soft parts, in the Oxford clay, at Christian-Malford, Wilts' by Richard Owen.
Received by the Royal Society on 14 March 1844. Read 21 March 1844. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on artists' board |
| Dimensions | 233x143mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1844.0006 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0013 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8083 | Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892) | 1804 - 1892 |