Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8733
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Fossil bones of horse, ox, hyaena, fox, water-rat, and rabbit with hyaena coprolite
Date
1822
Creator
Thomas Webster (1772 - 1844, British) , Geologist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 347mm
width (painting): 360mm
width (painting): 360mm
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Description
Plate 24 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. Eighteen figures of assorted fossil bones found at Kirkdale Cave, Yorkshire, on individual sheets pasted together, no backing sheet. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "T.Webster del". Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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