'The Common Musk' Finish:Rolled 16th July 1966

16th July 1966

Richard Price was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1765

Workmen dismantling Holy Trinity Chapel

View with figures walking in the foreground

'The Common Musk' Finish:Rolled 16th July 1966Zoological study of the Siberian musk deer (Moschus moschiferus) native to Asia, including Russia, Mongolia and China. This is a male animal, displaying the distinctive long upper teeth. Plate 3 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever by George Shaw (published by James Parkinson, 1792). The plate is inscribed: 'C. R. Ryley del. Noble sculpt. MOSCHUS MOSCHIFERUS. THE COMMON MUSK. Publish'd Feb.