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Image number: RS.8724
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Fossil hyaena jaw
Date
1822
Creator
Mary Morland (1797 - 1857, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 218mm
width (painting): 285mm
width (painting): 285mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 18 figure 2 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 hyaena discovered at Kirkdale Cave, Yorkshire. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in pencil below "Mary Morland. 1822". Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "J Whatman 1814".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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