Skull and jaws of fish-like fossil
Date
1814
Creator
William Clift (1944, American) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 220mm
width (painting): 385mm
width (painting): 385mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A watercolour painting of the jaws and skull of an unidentified fish-like fossil, found in a cliff on the estate of Henry Host Henley between Lyme and Charmouth in Dorsetshire. A small pencil sketch, presumably of another fossil from the same animal, appears beneath the skull.
Plate 17 from Everard Home's paper titled 'Some account of the fossil remains of an animal more nearly allied to fishes than any of the other classes of animals', published in volume 104 of Philosophical Transactions.
Inscribed with publication and plate details. An ink inscription below the skull reads 'Scale, 3 inches to a foot.' An ink inscription verso reads 'Animal of curious figure. Jaw 27. Inches. Mr Bullock's animal's head 4.6in. long. Scale of drawing 3 inches to a foot.' Signed bottom left, 'W. Clift del.'
Everard Home (1756-1832) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787. He was the recipient of the Copley Medal in 1807, delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1790, 1793-1796, 1798-1801, 1817-1821, 1823-1827, and 1829, and served as Vice President of the Society from 1814-1830.
William Clift (1775-1849) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823. He was sworn into the Royal Society Council in 1832 and also served on the Committee of Zoology and Animal Physiology from 1838.
Plate 17 from Everard Home's paper titled 'Some account of the fossil remains of an animal more nearly allied to fishes than any of the other classes of animals', published in volume 104 of Philosophical Transactions.
Inscribed with publication and plate details. An ink inscription below the skull reads 'Scale, 3 inches to a foot.' An ink inscription verso reads 'Animal of curious figure. Jaw 27. Inches. Mr Bullock's animal's head 4.6in. long. Scale of drawing 3 inches to a foot.' Signed bottom left, 'W. Clift del.'
Everard Home (1756-1832) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787. He was the recipient of the Copley Medal in 1807, delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1790, 1793-1796, 1798-1801, 1817-1821, 1823-1827, and 1829, and served as Vice President of the Society from 1814-1830.
William Clift (1775-1849) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823. He was sworn into the Royal Society Council in 1832 and also served on the Committee of Zoology and Animal Physiology from 1838.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Related fellows
William Clift (1944, American) , Illustrator
Everard Home, 1st Baronet (1756 - 1832, British) , Surgeon
Everard Home, 1st Baronet (1756 - 1832, British) , Surgeon