Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8602
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Fossil deer horns
Date
1813
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 327mm
width (painting): 232mm
width (painting): 232mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 12, 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 deer horn in his published plate notes. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details.Inscribed below in faint pencil "Princes Island Deer only one with pedicle." 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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