Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8630
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"Squalus acanthias" [Spiny dogfish, scapula and pectoral fin]
Date
1816
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 287mm
width (painting): 223mm
width (painting): 223mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 15 figure 2 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 titled and annotated "Squalus Acanthius. Natural size." Inscribed above with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "W.Clift del." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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