Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8774
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American bison
Date
1780
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 239mm
width (painting): 299mm
width (painting): 299mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Proposed plate for Thomas Pennant’s paper “Quadrupeds of the Northern World…Bison”. Showing a specimen of bison grazing within a rugged landscape including mountains in the background. Monogrammed and dated lower left, “1780 VF”. Not published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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