Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8563
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'Water-rat [stomach]'
Date
1807
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 148mm
width (painting): 180mm
width (painting): 180mm
Subject
Content object
Description
An anatomical study of the stomach of a water rat, inverted. Various parts of the stomach are labelled with letters that correspond to descriptions given in the published paper.
The work is inscribed above with plate details and below 'Internal View. Natural Size. Water-Rat.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Embossed lower left 'J. Parsons Bristol'.
Plate 6, figure 6 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 'Internal View. Natural Size. Water-Rat.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Embossed lower left 'J. Parsons Bristol'.
Plate 6, figure 6 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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