DRAWING TEETH
Browsing through the old scientific journals of the Royal Society of New Zealand, reawakens the urge to become a natural history artist, the dream of previous years to be a botanical artist, a recorder of detail, of enigmas … curiosities. Perhaps it is becoming a lost art … and all the more reason to take up the fine task of, in this case, drawing teeth …

Lower Jaw of the Ziphid Whale,
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 3, 1870
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 3, 1870
And even more beautiful …

Skull of the Ziphid Whale …
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