| RefNo | PT/73/9/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, rhinoceros skull by W [William] Clift |
| Date | 27 August 1821 |
| Description | Plate 2, figure 1 showing a rhinoceros skull. This specimen [of white rhinoceros?] was brought from Africa by John Campbell (1766-1840) of the London Missionary Society and deposited in their Museum in Old Jewry [London]. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Variously annotated, above in pencil 'NB A x B to be on the same plate' and lower left in ink '2 inches to a Foot' followed in pencil by 'Reduce it to 1 1/2 In to a foot'. Signed lower right 'W. Clift del. Aug 27. 1821.' Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Zoology / Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a new species of Rhinoceros found in the interior of Africa, the skull of which bears a close resemblance to that found in a fossil state in Siberia and other countries' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 13 December 1821. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on artists' board |
| Dimensions | 224x338mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0169 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1822.0006 |
| URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8708 |
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 |