Orkney seal skull mb-code 1645789 Three women and a child

Three women and a child wearing the latest fashions

was still rural in the eighteenth century

rises behind a drystone wall

'The Wounded Cavalier'

Orkney seal skull mb-code 1645789 Three women and a childPlate 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