Painting, fossilised horse foot by [William Clift]
Reference number: PT/73/10/13
Date: 1822
Description
Plate 10, figure 6 illlustrating 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 [England]. Inscribed with publication and plate details and a pencil note, upper left: 'Page 11 Horse'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston' by Joseph Whidbey.
Read to the Royal Society on 6 February 1823.
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- PT/73/10/13
- Earliest possible date
- 1822
- Physical description
- Ink wash on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
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- Painting
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William Clift, Joseph Whidbey, Painting, fossilised horse foot by [William Clift], 1822, PT/73/10/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_10_13/painting-fossilised-horse-foot-by-william-clift, accessed on 18 April 2025
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On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston. By Joseph Whidbey, Esq. F. R. S. In a letter addressed to John Barrow, Esq. F. R. S. To which is added, a description of the bones by Mr. William Clift, conservator of the museum of the college of surgeons External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0204
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IX. On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston. By Joseph Whidbey, Esq. F. R. S. in a letter addressed to John Barrow, Esq. F. R. S. to which is added, a description of the bones by Mr. William Clift, Conservator of the Museum of the College of Surgeons External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1823
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0011
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Paper, 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston' by Joseph Whidbey in a letter to John Barrow
Creator: Joseph Whidbey Reference number: PT/16/9
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 113
1822-1823 Reference number: PT/73/10
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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