Dugong skull and tusk Product:Fine art poster 'Do you want any brick-dust'

'Do you want any brick-dust'

An elderly gentleman considers that any book written by a woman must surely be unsuitable reading matter for his own daughters

Treasurer in ceremonial costume

Original is oil on canvas 23 1/2x99 1/2 (inches)

Dugong skull and tusk Product:Fine art poster 'Do you want any brick-dust'Plate 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