Robert the Bruce’s skull
Date
1924
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Dimensions
height (print): 311mm
width (print): 250mm
width (print): 250mm
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Description
Study of the supposed skull of King Robert 1 of Scotland, front view.
Plate 1 from the monograph King Robert the Bruce, 1274-1329: his skull and portraiture, by Karl Pearson (W. Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge, 1924). Reprinted from Biometrika v.16. Inscribed above: ‘Plate I’. Inscribed below: ‘The Skull of Robert Bruce. Norma facialis (about natural size).’
According to the accompanying text, the grave of Robert the Bruce at the Abbey Church of Dunfermline, was opened in 1818 and again in 1819 in the presence of Sir Henry Jardine, Dr Alexander Munro tertius and Dr James Gregory. A cast of the skull was taken by William Scoular (d.1854) and several copies made, including one now in the Royal Collections, Palace of Hollyroodhouse.
Karl Pearson [formerly Carl] (1857–1936), statistician and eugenicist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896.
Robert I [Robert Bruce] (1274–1329), king of Scots.
Plate 1 from the monograph King Robert the Bruce, 1274-1329: his skull and portraiture, by Karl Pearson (W. Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge, 1924). Reprinted from Biometrika v.16. Inscribed above: ‘Plate I’. Inscribed below: ‘The Skull of Robert Bruce. Norma facialis (about natural size).’
According to the accompanying text, the grave of Robert the Bruce at the Abbey Church of Dunfermline, was opened in 1818 and again in 1819 in the presence of Sir Henry Jardine, Dr Alexander Munro tertius and Dr James Gregory. A cast of the skull was taken by William Scoular (d.1854) and several copies made, including one now in the Royal Collections, Palace of Hollyroodhouse.
Karl Pearson [formerly Carl] (1857–1936), statistician and eugenicist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896.
Robert I [Robert Bruce] (1274–1329), king of Scots.
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