Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8631
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Fossilised Ichthyosaur paddle
Date
1816
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 248mm
width (painting): 193mm
width (painting): 193mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 16 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 specimen was from the Lyme Regis area and in the collection of "Mr Johnson", eg James Johnson of Bristol. Therefore collected by him or possibly by Mary Anning, from whom he bought fossils. The painting 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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