Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8565
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"Internal view...Kanguroo"
Date
1807
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 360mm
width (painting): 244mm
width (painting): 244mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 8 from the paper "Observations on the structure of the stomachs of different animals...", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.97 (1807), pp.139-179. Showing an internal view of the stomach of the kangaroo, exposing half of its cavity. The work is inscribed above with plate details and below "Internal View. Scale 1/2 inch to inch. Kanguroo." Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Embossed lower left "J.Parsons, Bristol."
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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