Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8694
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Lower jaw and teeth of a dugong
Date
1820
Creator
William Home Clift (1803 - 1832, British) , Museum curator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 260mm
width (painting): 202mm
width (painting): 202mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 14 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. Lower jaw a dugong (Dugong dugon) with details of incisors and molars. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "W H Clift del.." Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "W Turner & Son".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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