Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8509
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Bottlenose whale
Date
1787
Creator
William Bell (British) , Surgeon
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 201mm
width (painting): 273mm
width (painting): 273mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 19 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 the animal from its left side. The specimen, apparently a juvenile of twenty-one feet in length, “was caught above London Bridge in the year 1783, and became the property of Alderman Pugh”. Numbered “IIII”. Not signed. Watermarked “J Whatman”.
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