RefNo | PT/73/8/18 |
Level | Item |
Title | Painting, Sumatra dugong by [William Clift] |
Date | [1820] |
Description | Plate 25 showing a study of a young female dugong [Dugong dugon], a specimen sent to Everard Home by Thomas Stamford Raffles. With faint pencil sketches of the form of the tail, lower right. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso with the inscription 'On a scale of two inches to a foot'.
Subject: Zoology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Some account of the Dugong' by Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles.
Read to the Royal Society on 18 May 1820. |
Extent | 2p |
Format | Watercolour |
PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on paper |
Dimensions | 223x287mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0129 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0014 |
RelatedRecord | PT/14/16 |
URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8698 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
NA7464 | Raffles; Sir; Thomas Stamford Bingley (1781 - 1826) | 1781 - 1826 |
NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |