Dugong skull and tusk Size:L: 100 x 80cm including caricatures of: Sir Humphry

including caricatures of: Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) [centre

and is usually depicted with two faces

Interior view of Bridewell Hall

chemical retort and apothocaries' jars also form background material

Dugong skull and tusk Size:L: 100 x 80cm including caricatures of: Sir HumphryPlate 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