Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9896
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Fossil metacarpal bones of a bos
Date
1822
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (painting): 232mm
width (painting): 187mm
width (painting): 187mm
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Description
Plate 9 figure 5 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. Illustrating what William Clift described as "The lower extremity of the metacarpal bone and the three pair of phalanges of the bos [eg Bos taurus, cattle], viewed anteriorly." Fossil found at Oreston quarry, near Plymouth in Devon. Inscribed with publication and plate details and a pencil note, upper left: "Page 10 Bos." Not signed. 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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