print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1914,0520.479
- Title
- Object: A Head of one of the species of the Fossil Animal...
- Description
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Skull of a fossil ichthyosaur in profile to left; scale bar below image. 1819
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1819
- Dimensions
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Height: 233 millimetres
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Width: 377 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This was a private plate that cost De la Beche six guineas, he distributed copies to his friends in May-June 1819. The same ichthyosaur specimen can be seen in a lithograph portrait of the geologist William Buckland by George Rowe, dated 1823 (National Portrait Gallery, NPG D7669).
Lit.: J.C. Thackray, 'Separately-published prints of fossils in nineteenth century Britain', Archives of Natural History, XII (1985), pp. 177, 178, 181-82, 186; cat. no. 14.
P.J. Boylan, 'An unpublished portrait of Dean William Buckland, 1784-1856', Journal of the Society of the Bibiliography of Natural History, V (1970), pp. 350-54.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2013 Oct-Dec, Warwickshire, Compton Verney, Curious Beasts
2014 March-May, Belfast, Ulster Museum, Curious Beasts
2014 June-Aug, Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Curious Beasts
2014 Oct-Dec, San Diego, University Galleries, Curious Beasts
2016-2017 21 Oct-5 Feb, Adelaide, South Australian Museum: ‘Curious Beasts’
- Acquisition date
- 1914
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1914,0520.479