Painting, 'A longitudinal section of the caverns lately discovered in the breakwater quarries at Oreston' by W C [William Clift]
Reference number: PT/73/10/7
Date: 12 August 1822

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Plate 6 showing a section of the caves at Oreston, near Plymouth, Devon [England], the site of excavations for palaeolithic remains visited by William Buckland and other contemporary scientists. The work has the heading 'Sketch No. 1. A longitudinal section of the caverns lately discovered in the breakwater quarries at Oreston.' There is an inset reference key and various explanatory captions. The work has a scale, below, of 1 inch to 10 feet. Inscribed with publication and plate details and a pencil note upper right 'To be reduced to usual size'. Inscribed and initialled in ink lower right 'Oreston Quarries Augt. 12th 1822 W.C.' 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/73/10/7
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- 12 August 1822
- Physical description
- Watercolour and ink on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
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- Watercolour
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William Clift, Joseph Whidbey, Painting, 'A longitudinal section of the caverns lately discovered in the breakwater quarries at Oreston' by W C [William Clift], 12 August 1822, PT/73/10/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_10_7/painting-a-longitudinal-section-of-the-caverns-lately-discovered-in-the-breakwater-quarries-at-oreston-by-w-c-william-clift, accessed on 11 February 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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