Paintings, cranium and jaws of Thylacoleo carnifex by G [George] Scharf

Description

Plate 11, figures 1-3 showing various views of the cranium and upper and lower jaws of the Thylacoleo carnifex. Figure 3 is only a rough sketch. Inscribed with publication and plate details. A faint pencil sketch labelled 'Sarcophilus' appears to right of figure 1. Figures drawn separately and pasted onto backing sheet. Figure 1 signed in ink bottom right 'G. Scharf del 1851'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the fossil mammals of Australia.— Part I. Description of a mutilated skull of a large marsupial carnivore (Thylacoleo carnifex, Owen), from a calcareous conglomerate stratum, eighty miles S. W. of Melbourne, Victoria' by Richard Owen.

Received by the Royal Society on 18 September 1858. Read 16 December 1858.

Reference number

PT/75/8/9

Earliest possible date

01 January 1851

Physical description

Watercolour, ink, and graphite on paper, mounted on paper

Page extent

1 page

Format

Painting