Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8506
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Grampus [Killer whale]
Date
1787
Creator
William Bell (British) , Surgeon
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 199mm
width (painting): 273mm
width (painting): 273mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 16 for the paper “Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales”, by John Hunter, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 77 part 1 1787 pp.371-450. View of a twenty-four foot long male cetacean, showing its left side. According to the Hunter “it was caught in the mouth of the river Thames, in the year 1759, and brought up to Westminster Bridge in a barge”. Numbered “I”. Not signed.
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