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Image number: RS.8598
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Fossil elephant grinding teeth
Date
1813
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 310mm
width (painting): 235mm
width (painting): 235mm
Subject
Description
Plate 8, from the paper "An account of some organic remains found near Brentford, Middlesex", by William Kirby Trimmer, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.103 (1813), pp.131-137. Two figures, identified by Trimmer as Asiatic and African elephants in his published plate notes. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details, the figure numbers appearing in pencil. 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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