Dugong skull and tusks Finish:Stretched An elegant lady is sitting

An elegant lady is sitting on the back seat

by Robert Smirke

and officials became ill

reads over some papers presented to her by Emperor Napoleon

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

Dugong skull and tusks Finish:Stretched An elegant lady is sittingPlate 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.