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    Image number: RS.8564
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    Donkey's stomach inverted

    Date
    1807
    Creator
    William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 245mm
    width (painting): 361mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    An anatomical study of the stomach of a donkey, inverted to show its internal surface. 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. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.

    Plate 7 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
    Associated place
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