Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8601
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Fossil deer bones
Date
1813
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 326mm
width (painting): 235mm
width (painting): 235mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 11, 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. Four figures, identified by Trimmer as "Bones of the deer kind" (jawbone, teeth and leg-bone) in his published plate notes. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details.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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