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RefNoPT/75/3/9
LevelItem
TitlePainting, 'The body of a Rotalia in chalk' by Joseph Dinkel
Date[1846]
DescriptionPlate 21, figure 9 showing the body of a fossilised Rotalia, found in grey chalk in Folkestone [Kent, England]. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink bottom left 'Joseph Dinkel delt.' Mantell also signed the painting in ink bottom right, 'G A Mantell'.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the fossil remains of the soft parts of Foraminifera, discovered in the chalk and flint of the South-East of England' by Gideon Algernon Mantell.

Received by the Royal Society on 28 May 1846. Read 18 June 1846.
Extent1p
FormatPainting
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour on artists' paper, mounted on paper
Dimensions136x79mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1846.0024
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0096
RelatedRecordPT/31/3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7470Mantell; Gideon Algernon (1790 - 1852)1790 - 1852
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