Orkney seal skull mb-code 1645789 rises behind a drystone wall

rises behind a drystone wall

flags and bunting decorate the route

was still rural in the eighteenth century

made by the artist on behalf of Sir William Hamilton

Orkney seal skull mb-code 1645789 rises behind a drystone wallPlate 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