Painting, fossilised hyena jaw by Mary Morland

Description

Plate 18, figure 3 showing an inside view of the right lower jaw of a hyaena [hyena] discovered at Kirkdale Cave, Yorkshire [England]. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in pencil below 'Mary Morland. 1822.' Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and hyæna, and sixteen other animals; discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821: with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the continent' by William Buckland.

Read to the Royal Society on 21 February 1822.

Reference number

PT/73/9/18

Earliest possible date

01 January 1822

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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