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Image number: RS.8732
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Fossil deer teeth and antlers
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1822
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height (painting): 270mm
width (painting): 283mm
width (painting): 283mm
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Description
Plate 23 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. Five figures of fossil teeth and antler fragments, one identified by Buckland as a large red deer, discovered at Kirkdale Cave, Yorkshire. Figures 3-4 are on a single original sheet, upon which figures 1, 2 and 5 have been pasted. The original sheet bears the pasted-over inscription "Frances Duncombe delt. Feby. 14th 1822" with notes on specimen sizes. Figure 5 is also signed "Frances Duncombe del." The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "1816".
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An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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