Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8569
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"Human [stomach] to show the Glands..."
Date
1807
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (painting): 260mm
width (painting): 180mm
width (painting): 180mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 11, figure 1, 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 human stomach inverted to show its internal surface. The work is inscribed above with the plate number and below "Human to show the Glands & contraction. Natural Size." Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Embossed lower left "Bristol Paper." Subsequent plate figures, nos. 2 and 3, are attached to this illustration by red sealing wax.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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