| RefNo | PT/73/4/8 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, fossilised hippopotamus tusk and tooth found near Brentford, Middlesex by unknown artist |
| Date | [1813] |
| Description | Plate 10 containing three figures, identified by Trimmer as a hippopotamus tusk and fore-tooth (two views) in his published plate notes. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An account of some organic remains found near Brentford, Middlesex. By the late Mr. William Kirby Trimmer. Communicated in a letter from Mr. James R. Trimmer to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S'.
Read to the Royal Society on 4 March 1813. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink wash on paper |
| Dimensions | 308x235mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0274 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1813.0022 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/7/19 |
| URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8600 |