| Reference number | PT/73/9/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, fossilised rhinoceros horn by [William Clift] |
| Date | [1821] |
| Description | Plate 2, figure 2 showing a fossilised rhinoceros horn. This fossil horn is a 42-inch specimen from the British Museum's collections. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Variously annotated, lower left in pencil '3 feet 6 inches long' repeated in ink; lower right in ink 'Scale, 3 Inches to 1 Foot' and in pencil 'Reduce to 2 inches to a foot'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Zoology / Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a new species of Rhinoceros found in the interior of Africa, the skull of which bears a close resemblance to that found in a fossil state in Siberia and other countries' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 13 December 1821. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| Physical description | Watercolour on artists' paper |
| Dimensions | 303x225mm |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0169 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1822.0006 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8709 |
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 |