| Reference number | PT/73/9/3 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, fossilised rhinoceros skull by W H [William Home] Clift |
| Date | [1821] |
| Description | Plate 3 showing a fossilised rhinoceros skull. According to Everard Home's text, this painting was made from a cast of the fossil specimen sent by the Tsar of Russia to Sir Joseph Banks and deposited in the British Museum. However, the plate note attributes it to a skull in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris [France]. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details and lower left 'Scale 3 Inches to a Foot'. Signed lower left 'W.H. Clift del.' 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 | Painting |
| Physical description | Ink wash on artists' paper |
| Dimensions | 227x326mm |
| 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-8710 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
| NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |