Painting, fossilised skull of the proteo-saurus [ichthyosaur] by [William Clift]

Description

Plate 13 showing the fossilised skull of an ichthyosaur. This fossil was owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas James Birch and therefore probably discovered by Mary Anning. The work includes an additional small pencil sketch of a tooth detail, lower right, with the inscription: 'More like this: the crown of the Tooth only should have the lines more distinct.' Inscribed with publication and plate details and two versions of the note 'Scale Half an Inch to an Inch' in ink and pencil, lower left. Not signed. Royal Society stamps verso. Watermarked 'J Whatman 1816'.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An account of the fossil skeleton of the Proteo-saurus' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 4 March 1819.

Reference number

PT/73/7/13

Earliest possible date

1819

Physical description

Ink wash on paper

Page extent

1 page

Format

Painting

Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library

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