Orkney seal skull mb-code 00509820 with a dog running alongside

with a dog running alongside

' Several of the individual figures are pasted onto a backing board which has four original figures

A 1928 Hispano-Suiza 45hp car

Palms and other potted plants decorate the central area

Orkney seal skull mb-code 00509820 with a dog running alongsidePlate 28 from the paper 'On the difference in the appearence of the teeth and the shape of the skull in different species of seals', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 239 240. Side view of the skull half resting on a book. The animal, of at least thirty years of age, was shot near the Orkney Islands and the skeleton presented to John Hunter. Signed and inscribed lower left 'Willm. Clift delineavit