Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9892
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Rock face at Oreston
Date
12 August 1822
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (painting): 352mm
width (painting): 402mm
width (painting): 402mm
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Description
Plate 7 from the paper "On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston...", by Joseph Whidbey with the supplementary paper "A description of the fossil bones found in the caverns of Oreston...", by William Clift, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.113 (1823), pp.78-90. A painting of the fissured rock face at Oreston quarry, near Plymouth in Devon where fossil teeth and shells were found and what appear to be spoil heaps below it. This was the site of cave excavations for Palaeolithic remains and were visited by William Buckland FRS and other contemporary scientists. Headed "Sketch No.2", the work has no captions and is not signed. Inscribed with publication and plate details and a pencil note upper right "to be reduced to usual size." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 113.
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