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    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
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 287mm
    width (painting): 223mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > fossil
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    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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