Painting, nasal bones of the proteosaurus [ichthyosaur] by [William Clift]
Reference number: PT/73/8/16
Date: 1820
Description
Plate 16 showing a transverse section through the nasal bones of an ichthyosaur, collected by Mary Anning at Lyme Regis [Dorset, England]. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the mode of formation of the canal for containing the spinal marrow, and on the form of the fins (if they deserve that name) of the Proteosaurus' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 4 May 1820.
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- PT/73/8/16
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- 1820
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- Watercolour on paper
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- Watercolour
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William Clift, Everard Home, Painting, nasal bones of the proteosaurus [ichthyosaur] by [William Clift], 1820, PT/73/8/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_8_16/painting-nasal-bones-of-the-proteosaurus-ichthyosaur-by-william-clift, accessed on 06 November 2025
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Related Publications
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On the mode of formation of the canal for containing the spinal marrow, and on the form of the fins (if they deserve that name) of the Proteo-saurus External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0127
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XI. On the mode of formation of the canal for containing the spinal marrow, and on the form of the fins (if they deserve that name) of the Proteosaurus External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1820
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0012
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Paper, 'On the mode of formation of the canal for containing the spinal marrow; and on the form of the fins (if they deserve that name) of the proteosaurus' by Sir Everard Home
Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/14/14
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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 110
1819-1820 Reference number: PT/73/8
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William Clift
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Everard Home
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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