Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14061

    Teeth of the Port Jackson shark

    Date
    1834
    Creator
    Caroline Amelia Owen (1801 - 1873) , Painter
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 185mm
    width (print): 186mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Anatomical study of the teeth of the Port Jackson shark Heterodontus portusjacksoni (here referred to as Cestracion philippi).

    The drawing appears as an enclosure in a letter from Richard Owen to William Buckland, 18 December 1834. Owen wrote: ‘Miss Clift has been kind enough to make the sketch herewith sent of the preparation in the collection [of the Royal College of Surgeons] which may be a guide as to the number and proportions of the teeth in the different rows of the dental plate of Cestr: Philippi.’

    The work is inscribed in pencil below: ‘Sketch of teeth of Cestracion Philippi for general form and proportions’. Above, a note: teeth lost from this surface’. Paper embossed with a crown and ‘BATH’ top left.

    Caroline Amelia Clift, later Owen (1801-1873) British painter and illustrator. Married to Richard Owen.

    Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), British comparative anatomist and palaeontologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834.
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