Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8692
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Dugong skull and tusk
Date
1820
Creator
William Home Clift (1803 - 1832, British) , Museum curator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 203mm
width (painting): 258mm
width (painting): 258mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 12 from the paper "On the milk tusks, and organs of hearing of the Dugong", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.110 (1820), pp.144-155. Side view of the skull of a dugong (Dugong dugon) with a section of the tusk, both from a Sumatra specimen provided by Thomas Stamford Raffles. With a copy figure of a dugong skull by Georges Cuvier. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "W H 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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