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Clift 1822 horn of white rhino

1812 Clift Home Royal Soc

Horn of white rhinoceros. Watercolour by William Clift.

Annotated: lower left in pencil “3 feet 6 inches long” repeated in ink; lower right in ink “Scale, 3 Inches to 1 Foot” and in pencil “Reduce to 2 inches to a foot”.

Original in Royal Society, London

Later published in

Home, E. 1822. On a new species of rhinoceros found in the interior of Africa, the skull of which bears a close resemblance to that found in a fossil state in Siberia and other countries. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 112 (1): 38-45, pls. 2-3.

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