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Image number: RS.8735
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Fossil teeth and bones of boar
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1822
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height (painting): 303mm
width (painting): 227mm
width (painting): 227mm
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Plate 25 figures 30-33 and one unused figure 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 upper and lower jaw teeth, tusk, jaw fragments "of hog" and one bone, the latter omitted from the finished plate. Specimens found at Kirkdale Cave, Yorkshire. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details and pencilled notes of instruction on printing. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
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An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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