Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9897
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Fossil horse foot
Date
1822
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 233mm
width (painting): 187mm
width (painting): 187mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 10 figure 6 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 two coronary bones and the terminal phalange or coffin-bone of the foot of the horse." Fossil found at Oreston quarry, near Plymouth in Devon. Inscribed with publication and plate details and a pencil note, upper left: "Page 11 Horse" 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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