Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8628
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Fossilised Ichthyosaur vertebra
Date
1816
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 243mm
width (painting): 300mm
width (painting): 300mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 14 from the paper "Some farther account of the fossil remains of an animal, of which a description was given to the Society in 1814", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.106 (1816), pp.318-321. The painting is annotated in pencil: "Found at Lyme. The largest vertebra of this fish I have ever seen. This compared with the vertebra of Bullock's specimen shews the size which the animal occasionally attained." The fossil was in the possession of William Buckland and collected by Mary Anning. The painting is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "J Whatman 1811."
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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