Painting, dugong pelvic bones by [William Clift]
Reference number: PT/73/8/27
Date: 1820
Description
Plate 31, figure 2 showing the pelvic bones of a female dugong. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Particulars respecting the anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a supplement to Sir T. S. Raffles' account of that animal' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 29 June 1820.
- Reference number
- PT/73/8/27
- Earliest possible date
- 1820
- Physical description
- Watercolour on paper
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- 1 page
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- Watercolour
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William Clift, Everard Home, Painting, dugong pelvic bones by [William Clift], 1820, PT/73/8/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_8_27/painting-dugong-pelvic-bones-by-william-clift, accessed on 21 June 2025
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Related Publications
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Particulars respecting the anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a supplement to Sir T. S. Raffles’s account of that animal External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0135
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XX. Particulars respecting the anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a supplement to Sir T. S. Raffles' account of that animal External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1820
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0021
Related Records
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Paper, 'Particulars respecting the anatomy of the dugong, not mentioned by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. Intended as a supplement to Sir Stamford's account of that animal' by Sir Everard Home
Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/14/25
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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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