| RefNo | PT/73/10/7 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, 'A longitudinal section of the caverns lately discovered in the breakwater quarries at Oreston' by W C [William Clift] |
| Date | 12 August 1822 |
| Description | Plate 6 showing a section of the caves at Oreston, near Plymouth, Devon [England], the site of excavations for palaeolithic remains visited by William Buckland and other contemporary scientists. The work has the heading 'Sketch No. 1. A longitudinal section of the caverns lately discovered in the breakwater quarries at Oreston.' There is an inset reference key and various explanatory captions. The work has a scale, below, of 1 inch to 10 feet. Inscribed with publication and plate details and a pencil note upper right 'To be reduced to usual size'. Inscribed and initialled in ink lower right 'Oreston Quarries Augt. 12th 1822 W.C.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston' by Joseph Whidbey.
Read to the Royal Society on 6 February 1823. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour and ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 352x441mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0204 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0011 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/16/9 |
| URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9891 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
| NA2833 | Whidbey; Joseph (1755 - 1833) | 1755 - 1833 |