| Reference number | PT/73/10/15 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, fossilised hyena skull by [William Clift] |
| Date | [1822] |
| Description | Plate 11 showing a fossilised hyaena [hyena] skull. Inscribed in pencil: 'Page 13. Back part of the Skull supposed to belong to an enormous Hyaena'. Fossil found at Oreston Quarry, near Plymouth in Devon [England]. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
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 |
| Physical description | Ink wash on paper |
| Dimensions | 233x185mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0204 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0011 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/16/9 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9899 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
| NA2833 | Whidbey; Joseph (1755 - 1833) | 1755 - 1833 |