Lower jaw and teeth of a dugong Three Bucks Tavern rests on a table covered

rests on a table covered with a red cloth

21st November 1963

Following a pattern evolved over two thousand years ago

street scene with shopfronts

Showing a view along Poultry and Princes Street

Lower jaw and teeth of a dugong Three Bucks Tavern rests on a table coveredPlate 14 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. Lower jaw a dugong (Dugong dugon) with details of incisors and molars. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'W H Clift del..' Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'W Turner & Son'. Original: ink on paper. 1820