Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8597
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Narwhal skulls and tusks
Date
1813
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 226mm
width (painting): 311mm
width (painting): 311mm
Subject
Content object
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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