Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8597
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    Narwhal skulls and tusks

    Date
    1813
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 226mm
    width (painting): 311mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > whale
    Description
    Plate 7, from the paper "On the tusks of the Narwhale", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.103 (1813), pp.126-130. Figures of male and female narwhal skulls with jaw and tusk details. The illustration was printed in portrait format, but this original was designed in landscape format, with figure and scale inscriptions positioned accordingly. The work is inscribed above [portrait] with publication and plate details. An original inscription has been erased lower right [landscape]. Not signed, Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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