Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8573
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"Hawk [stomach]"
Date
1807
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 116mm
width (painting): 186mm
width (painting): 186mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 12, figures 2 and 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. External and internal appearance of the stomach of a hawk. The work is inscribed below "Hawk natural size..." and above "To be put On the Plate with the [Human or - struck through] Lynx." Not signed. Attached to figure 1 by red sealing wax.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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