Dugong skull and tusks Finish:Stretched by Robert Smirke

by Robert Smirke

was a continuing scandal throughout the mid-Victorian period

My Old Friend Homer

An elegant lady is sitting on the back seat

Dugong skull and tusks Finish:Stretched by Robert SmirkePlate 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.