| Reference number | PT/73/9/29 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, 'Vertical section of the great cave at Gailenreuth' by [Thomas Webster after William Buckland] |
| Date | [1822] |
| Description | Plate 26 showing a sectional landscape of levels within the Gailenreuth cave complex near Bamberg, Bavaria [Upper Franconia], Germany, showing explorers using torchlight and a ladder to investigate stalactites and deposits of fossil bones. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed, but inscribed lower left in pencil 'Is. [Isaac] Basire sc'. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mills 1819'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and hyæna, and sixteen other animals; discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821: with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the continent' by William Buckland.
Read to the Royal Society on 21 February 1822. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| Physical description | Ink wash and pencil on paper |
| Dimensions | 228x309mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0178 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1822.0017 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8736 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8154 | Buckland; William (1784 - 1856); Dean of Westminster and geologist | 1784 - 1856 |