Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8736
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"Vertical section of the great cave at Gailenreuth"
Date
1822
Creator
Thomas Webster (1772 - 1844, British) , Geologist
After
William Buckland (1784 - 1856, British) , Dean of Westminster
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 228mm
width (painting): 309mm
width (painting): 309mm
Subject
Description
Plate 26 from the paper "Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopatomus, 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. Sectional landscape of levels within the Galienreuth cave complex, near Bamberg, Bavaria [Upper Franconia], Germany: showing explorers using torchlight and a ladder to investigate stalactites and deposits of fossil bones. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed, but inscribed lower left in pencil "Is. Basire sc". 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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