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Image number: RS.8695
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Fossil skull and jaws of the Proteosaurus [Ichthyosaur]
Date
1820
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 214mm
width (painting): 282mm
width (painting): 282mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 15 from the paper "On the mode of formation of the canal for containing the spinal marrow, and on the form of the fins (if they deserve that name) of the Proteosaurus", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.110 (1820), pp.159-164. Two figures showing part of the skull (with paddle, vertebrae and other bones) with the jaws of the same specimen of Ichthyosaur, collected by Mary Anning at Lyme Regis: Home's essay states "such has been the exertion made by persons employed by Colonel Birch, to explore the cliffs at Lyme, in search of fossil organic remains, from an expectation that they will receive the full reward of their labours..." The work is inscribed 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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