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    Image number: RS.8739
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    New Georgia seal skull

    Date
    1822
    Creator
    William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 202mm
    width (painting): 286mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Plate 29 from the paper "On the difference in the appearence of the teeth and the shape of the skull in different species of seals", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.239-240. Side view of the skull of a seal preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. The animal was "brought by Mr Kearn, in a Whaler, from New Georgia, near the ice towards the South Pole". The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed and inscribed lower left "Wm. Clift delin. 1822. Scale. Half an Inch to an Inch." Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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