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    Image number: RS.8568
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    "Cormorant's stomach"

    Date
    1807
    Creator
    William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 260mm
    width (painting): 180mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Plate 10, figure 3, 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 the external appearance of the cormorant's stomach. The work is inscribed below "Cormorant's Stomach " and in pencil "Cormorant." Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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