| RefNo | PT/75/8/9 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, cranium and jaws of Thylacoleo carnifex by G [George] Scharf |
| Date | 1851 |
| Description | Plate 11, figures 1-3 showing various views of the cranium and upper and lower jaws of the Thylacoleo carnifex. Figure 3 is only a rough sketch. Inscribed with publication and plate details. A faint pencil sketch labelled 'Sarcophilus' appears to right of figure 1. Figures drawn separately and pasted onto backing sheet. Figure 1 signed in ink bottom right 'G. Scharf del 1851'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the fossil mammals of Australia.— Part I. Description of a mutilated skull of a large marsupial carnivore (Thylacoleo carnifex, Owen), from a calcareous conglomerate stratum, eighty miles S. W. of Melbourne, Victoria' by Richard Owen.
Received by the Royal Society on 18 September 1858. Read 16 December 1858. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour, ink, and graphite on paper, mounted on paper |
| Dimensions | 345x228mm [irregular] |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1859.0016 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1857.0107 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8083 | Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892) | 1804 - 1892 |