The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Elephant’s Tooth

Images supplied courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation. [Photograph].
Click image for full-size. Collector (major)Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) Donator of object(s)Hayford Wainwright (-) In Print: Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thoresby (1659-1725) Preserved at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, 33 Description:Described in Musaeum Thoresbianum as: "A prodigious Tooth of an Elephant; it is eleven Inches in Circumference, besides what hath been broken off . . .[from] . . . Derbyshire . . . and given me by Dr. Hayford Wainwright."
Burton Constable label: ‘Elephants Tooth. / p. 433.’