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Image number: RS.8561
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'Beaver glands'
Date
1807
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 230mm
width (painting): 178mm
width (painting): 178mm
Subject
Content object
Description
An anatomical study of the glandular structure within a beaver's stomach with a detail of a glandular opening.
The work is inscribed above with plate details; and below 'Beaver Glands. Natural Size.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Plate 6, figures 2 and 3 from Everard Home's paper 'Observations on the structure of the stomachs of different animals, with a view to elucidate the process of converting animal and vegetable substances into chyle', published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 97 (1807), pp.139-179.
Everard Home (1756-1832), British surgeon, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787, delivered the Croonian Lecture on numerous occasions between 1790 and 1829, and received the Copley Medal in 1807.
William Clift (1775-1849), British illustrator and conservator, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823.
The work is inscribed above with plate details; and below 'Beaver Glands. Natural Size.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Plate 6, figures 2 and 3 from Everard Home's paper 'Observations on the structure of the stomachs of different animals, with a view to elucidate the process of converting animal and vegetable substances into chyle', published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 97 (1807), pp.139-179.
Everard Home (1756-1832), British surgeon, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787, delivered the Croonian Lecture on numerous occasions between 1790 and 1829, and received the Copley Medal in 1807.
William Clift (1775-1849), British illustrator and conservator, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Related fellows
Everard Home, 1st Baronet (1756 - 1832, British) , Surgeon
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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