| Reference number | PT/75/3/14 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, 'The body of a Rotalia' by Joseph Dinkel |
| Date | [1846] |
| Description | Plate 21, figure 5 showing the soft parts of a Rotalia found in chalk in Dover [England]. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink bottom left 'Joseph Dinkel delt.' Mantell also signed the painting in ink bottom right, 'G A Mantell'. Embossed stamp bottom left corner reads 'Bristol Paper'.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the fossil remains of the soft parts of Foraminifera, discovered in the chalk and flint of the South-East of England' by Gideon Algernon Mantell.
Received by the Royal Society on 28 May 1846. Read 18 June 1846. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| Physical description | Watercolour on artists' paper, mounted on paper |
| Dimensions | 307x235mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1846.0024 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0096 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/31/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7470 | Mantell; Gideon Algernon (1790 - 1852) | 1790 - 1852 |