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

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Round Bone of a Whale

Images supplied courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation. [Photograph].
Click image for full-size. Collector (major)Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) Donator of object(s)Francis Place (1647-1728) In Print: Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thoresby (1659-1725) Preserved at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, 34 Description:Described in Musaeum Thoresbianum as: ‘A round Bone of a Whale seven Inches Diameter,
but little more than one thick. Don. D. Fran. Place.’