| Reference number | PT/73/7/13 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, fossilised skull of the proteo-saurus [ichthyosaur] by [William Clift] |
| Date | [1819] |
| Description | Plate 13 showing the fossilised skull of an ichthyosaur. This fossil was owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas James Birch and therefore probably discovered by Mary Anning. The work includes an additional small pencil sketch of a tooth detail, lower right, with the inscription: 'More like this: the crown of the Tooth only should have the lines more distinct.' Inscribed with publication and plate details and two versions of the note 'Scale Half an Inch to an Inch' in ink and pencil, lower left. Not signed. Royal Society stamps verso. Watermarked 'J Whatman 1816'.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An account of the fossil skeleton of the Proteo-saurus' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 4 March 1819. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| Physical description | Ink wash on paper |
| Dimensions | 249x337mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0015 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/13/15 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8674 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |