| Reference number | PT/73/8/12 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, dugong skull and tusk by W H [William Home] Clift |
| Date | [1820] |
| Description | Plate 12 showing a side view of the skull of a dugong [Dugong dugon] with a section of the tusk, both from a Sumatran specimen provided by Thomas Stamford Raffles. With a copy figure of a dugong skull after Georges Cuvier. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'W. H. Clift del.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the milk tusks, and organ of hearing of the Dugong' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 13 April 1820. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| Physical description | Ink wash on paper |
| Dimensions | 203x258mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0125 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0010 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/14/12 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8692 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
| NA8191 | Cuvier; Georges (1769 - 1832) | 1769 - 1832 |
| NA7464 | Raffles; Sir; Thomas Stamford Bingley (1781 - 1826) | 1781 - 1826 |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |