RefNo | PT/73/8/14 |
Level | Item |
Title | Painting, lower jaw and teeth of a dugong by W H [William Home] Clift |
Date | [1820] |
Description | Plate 14 showing the lower jaw of a dugong [Dugong dugon] with details of incisors and molars. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'W. H. Clift del.' Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'W Turner & Son'.
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 | 260x202mm |
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-8694 |
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 |