Mantle, head, and arms of Belemnites owenii
Date
1844
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 287mm
width (painting): 233mm
width (painting): 233mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Watercolour painting by an unknown artist showing a fossilised specimen of the muscular mantle, the head, and the uncinated arms from a Belemnites owenii specimen held in the collection of Samuel Peace Pratt. Belemnites owenii was a type of Belemnotheutis, a genus of extinct squid-like cephalopods.
Plate 5 from Richard Owen's paper titled 'A description of certain Belemnites, preserved, with a great proportion of their soft parts, in the Oxford Clay, at Christian-Malford, Wilts', published in volume 134 of Philosophical Transactions.
Inscribed with publication and plate details. A pencil inscription above painting reads 'Fig. 11.' A pencil inscription verso reads 'Drawings accompanying Mr Owens paper on the Belemnite in Phil Trans P' 9. 1844'. Not signed.
Richard Owen (1804-1892) was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834. He received the Royal Medal in 1846 and the Copley Medal in 1851, and delivered the Bakerian Lecture in 1844 and the Croonian Lecture in 1851. He served on Council as Vice President twice, first from 1849-1850 and later from 1857-1858.
Samuel Peace Pratt (1789-1863) was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1842 and withdrew from the Society in 1860 for health reasons.
Plate 5 from Richard Owen's paper titled 'A description of certain Belemnites, preserved, with a great proportion of their soft parts, in the Oxford Clay, at Christian-Malford, Wilts', published in volume 134 of Philosophical Transactions.
Inscribed with publication and plate details. A pencil inscription above painting reads 'Fig. 11.' A pencil inscription verso reads 'Drawings accompanying Mr Owens paper on the Belemnite in Phil Trans P' 9. 1844'. Not signed.
Richard Owen (1804-1892) was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834. He received the Royal Medal in 1846 and the Copley Medal in 1851, and delivered the Bakerian Lecture in 1844 and the Croonian Lecture in 1851. He served on Council as Vice President twice, first from 1849-1850 and later from 1857-1858.
Samuel Peace Pratt (1789-1863) was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1842 and withdrew from the Society in 1860 for health reasons.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Related fellows
Richard Owen (1804 - 1892, British) , Palaeontologist
Samuel Peace Pratt (1789 - 1863, British) , Palaeontologist
Samuel Peace Pratt (1789 - 1863, British) , Palaeontologist