Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8568
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"Cormorant's stomach"
Date
1807
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 260mm
width (painting): 180mm
width (painting): 180mm
Subject
Content object
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.
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