Orkney seal skull mb-code 00509820 'Les divertissements de la lotterie'

'Les divertissements de la lotterie'

He wears a black coat and waistcoat

with a dog running alongside

A 1928 Hispano-Suiza 45hp car

In the centre a stand bearing a scroll inscribed with a list of bubbles

Orkney seal skull mb-code 00509820 'Les divertissements de la lotterie'Plate 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