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Image number: RS.10383
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Dissected head of a porpoise
Date
1836
Creator
Antoine Toussaint de Chazal (1793 - 1854, French) , Printmaker
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X110/1
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 310mm
width (print): 427mm
width (print): 427mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Anatomical study of the head of the common or harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena, showing the brain, sensory organs and musculature.
Plate 1 from Histoire anatomique et physiologique d’un organe de nature vasculaire découvert dans les cétacés..., by M.G. Breschet (Paris, 1836). Headed “Face latéral gauche de la tête du Marsouin” [Left side of the head of a porpoise]. Inscribed below “A. Chazal 13 Avril 1829. Lith. de Benard, rue de l’Abbaye 4”.
Gilbert Breschet (1784-1845) French anatomist investigated the rete mirabile in dolphins and porpoises.
Plate 1 from Histoire anatomique et physiologique d’un organe de nature vasculaire découvert dans les cétacés..., by M.G. Breschet (Paris, 1836). Headed “Face latéral gauche de la tête du Marsouin” [Left side of the head of a porpoise]. Inscribed below “A. Chazal 13 Avril 1829. Lith. de Benard, rue de l’Abbaye 4”.
Gilbert Breschet (1784-1845) French anatomist investigated the rete mirabile in dolphins and porpoises.
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