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Image number: RS.8723
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Hyaena jaw
Date
1822
Creator
Thomas Webster (1772 - 1844, British) , Geologist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 219mm
width (painting): 264mm
width (painting): 264mm
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Description
Plate 18 figure 1 from the paper "Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and hyaena, and sixteen other animals; discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821: with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the Continent.", by William Buckland, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.171-236. Outside view of the right lower jaw of a Cape hyaena. Faint pencil inscription below, ..."? cape Hyaena 1/4 smaller than a fossil one:..1/9 Cuvier." The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "J Whatman Turkey Mills 1819".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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