RefNo | PT/73/8/13 |
Level | Item |
Title | Painting, dugong skull and tusks by W H [William Home] Clift |
Date | [1820] |
Description | Plate 13 showing the base of the skull of a dugong [Dugong dugon] with milk tusks; with details of the permanent tusk appearing in situ and a section of the adult tusk. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'W. H. Clift del.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the milk tusks, and organ of hearing of the Dugong' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 13 April 1820. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Painting |
PhysicalDescription | Ink wash on paper |
Dimensions | 259x200mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0125 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0010 |
RelatedRecord | PT/14/12 |
URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8693 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |