Dugong skull and tusk Size:L: 100 x 80cm 'The painters march from Finchly

'The painters march from Finchly

who will play his - 25th - assistant Peri

and is usually depicted with two faces

'A Sop to Cerberus'

He wears a box inscribed Lady Eliza[beth's] Muff Box

Dugong skull and tusk Size:L: 100 x 80cm 'The painters march from FinchlyPlate 12 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. Side view of the skull of a dugong (Dugong dugon) with a section of the tusk, both from a Sumatra specimen provided by Thomas Stamford Raffles. With a copy figure of a dugong skull by Georges Cuvier. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left