Dugong skull and tusks Size:XL: 100 x 75cm It will soon be 'Mate'

It will soon be 'Mate'

November 5

View of Blackfriars Bridge from west

People stroll along the outer path

'King's Head Inn on the East Side of the High Street

Dugong skull and tusks Size:XL: 100 x 75cm It will soon be 'Mate'Plate 13 from the paper 'On the milk tusks, and organs of hearing of the Dugong', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 144 155. Base of the skull of a dugong (Dugong dugon) with milk tusks; with details of the permanent tusk appearing in situ and a section of the adult tusk. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'W H Clift del..' Royal Society stamp verso.