| RefNo | PT/75/3/4 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, muscular mantle, head, and uncinated arms of the Belemnites owenii by unknown artist |
| Date | [1844] |
| Description | Plate 5 showing the muscular mantle, the head, and the uncinated arms from a Belemnites owenii specimen held in the collection of S P [Samuel Peace] Pratt. Inscribed with publication and plate details. A pencil inscription above painting reads 'Fig. 11.' A pencil inscription verso reads 'Drawings accompanying Mr Owens paper on the Belemnite in Phil Trans P' 9. 1844'. Not signed. 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 | 2p |
| Format | Painting |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on artists' board |
| Dimensions | 287x233mm |
| 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 |
| NA7325 | Pratt; Samuel Peace (1789 - 1863) | 1789 - 1863 |