Dugong skull and tusk Size:L: 100 x 80cm chemical retort and apothocaries' jars

chemical retort and apothocaries' jars also form background material

with a dog in the foreground and a coach behind them

'Joint Stock Street'

He wears a box inscribed Lady Eliza[beth's] Muff Box

Interior view of Bridewell Hall

Dugong skull and tusk Size:L: 100 x 80cm chemical retort and apothocaries' jarsPlate 12 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. Side view of the skull of a dugong (Dugong dugon) with a section of the tusk, both from a Sumatra specimen provided by Thomas Stamford Raffles. With a copy figure of a dugong skull by Georges Cuvier. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left