Fossil hyena jaw William Henry Toms 'Don't Broil your Babies

'Don't Broil your Babies

A woman fills a water-jug from the River Nile

with lines of buses and cars

Original is oil on panel 70x35

Lieutenant Henry Frederick Cookes for the coronation of King George IV

Fossil hyena jaw William Henry Toms 'Don't Broil your BabiesPlate 10 figure 7 from the paper 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston', by Joseph Whidbey with the supplementary paper 'A description of the fossil bones found in the caverns of Oreston', by William Clift, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 113 (1823), pp. 78 90. Inscribed in pencil: 'Page 12. Young Hyaena. Lower jaw with one shedding molaris, and two permanent ones not perfectly formed.'