Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8774
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    American bison

    Date
    1780
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 239mm
    width (painting): 299mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    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.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > North America
          > United States
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