Painting, fossilised rhinoceros horn by [William Clift]

Description

Plate 2, figure 2 showing a fossilised rhinoceros horn. This fossil horn is a 42-inch specimen from the British Museum's collections. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Variously annotated, lower left in pencil '3 feet 6 inches long' repeated in ink; lower right in ink 'Scale, 3 Inches to 1 Foot' and in pencil 'Reduce to 2 inches to a foot'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Zoology / Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a new species of Rhinoceros found in the interior of Africa, the skull of which bears a close resemblance to that found in a fossil state in Siberia and other countries' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 13 December 1821.

Reference number

PT/73/9/2

Earliest possible date

1821

Physical description

Watercolour on artists' paper

Page extent

1 page

Format

Watercolour

Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library

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