Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8570
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    "Vampyre bat [stomach]"

    Date
    1807
    Creator
    William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 95mm
    width (painting): 154mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Plate 11, figure 2, 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. A longitudinal section of the stomach of a vampire bat. The work is inscribed above with plate details below "Vampyre Bat" Not signed. Attached to figures 1 and 3 by red sealing wax.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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