Dugong skull and tusks Finish:Stretched Equestrian Portrait of Charles IV

Equestrian Portrait of Charles IV of Spain

Brush seller of the late 17th century displaying an example of his wares

and officials became ill

by Robert Smirke

early 1920s

Dugong skull and tusks Finish:Stretched Equestrian Portrait of Charles IVPlate 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.