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Painting, dugong skull and tusks by W H [William Home] Clift

Reference number: PT/73/8/13

Date: 1820

Description

Plate 13 showing the base of the skull of a dugong [Dugong dugon] with milk tusks; with details of the permanent tusk appearing in situ and a section of the adult tusk. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'W. H. Clift del.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the milk tusks, and organ of hearing of the Dugong' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 13 April 1820.

Reference number
PT/73/8/13
Earliest possible date
1820
Physical description
Ink wash on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Painting
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William Clift

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Everard Home

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William Clift, Everard Home, Painting, dugong skull and tusks by W H [William Home] Clift, 1820, PT/73/8/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_8_13/painting-dugong-skull-and-tusks-by-w-h-william-home-clift, accessed on 14 January 2025

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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