Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8590
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"Struthio camelus [African ostrich gizzard]"
Date
1812
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (painting): 274mm
width (painting): 189mm
width (painting): 189mm
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Description
Plate 17, from the paper "On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.102 (1812), pp.394-404. Internal view of the gizzard of the African ostrich, one-sixth scale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right "Struthio Camelus." Instructions to the engraver are also present, "This Plate to be engraved as it is, & not reversed, that it may print the reverse." Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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