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Painting, 'Rotalia from chalk' by Joseph Dinkel and J Mounsey

Reference number: PT/75/3/15

Date: 1846

Description

Plate 21, figure 10 showing the internal parts of a Rotalia found in chalk in Dover [England]. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink bottom left 'Joseph Dinkel & J. Mounsey delt.' Mantell also signed the painting in ink bottom right, 'G A Mantell'.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the fossil remains of the soft parts of Foraminifera, discovered in the chalk and flint of the South-East of England' by Gideon Algernon Mantell.

Received by the Royal Society on 28 May 1846. Read 18 June 1846.

Reference number
PT/75/3/15
Earliest possible date
1846
Physical description
Watercolour on artists' paper, mounted on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Painting

Creator name

Gideon Algernon Mantell

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Gideon Algernon Mantell, Painting, 'Rotalia from chalk' by Joseph Dinkel and J Mounsey, 1846, PT/75/3/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_3_15/painting-rotalia-from-chalk-by-joseph-dinkel-and-j-mounsey, accessed on 14 June 2026

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