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Image number: RS.8574
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Stomachs of viper, frog, turtle and blue shark
Date
1807
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 233mm
width (painting): 314mm
width (painting): 314mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 13, 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.
Figure 1. The stomach of a viper laid open to show its internal surface. The work is inscribed above "Viper." Not signed.
Figure 3. The stomach of a frog exposing one half of its cavity. The work is inscribed below "Frog." Not signed.
Figures 2 and 4. The stomach of a turtle exposing one half of its cavity; and a longitudinal section of the stomach of the blue shark caught at Hastings and purchased by Colonel Bothwell of the Scotch Greys. The work is inscribed with the plate number. Not signed. Several pencil inscriptions on scale have been wholly or in part erased. Royal Society stamp verso.
Figure 1. The stomach of a viper laid open to show its internal surface. The work is inscribed above "Viper." Not signed.
Figure 3. The stomach of a frog exposing one half of its cavity. The work is inscribed below "Frog." Not signed.
Figures 2 and 4. The stomach of a turtle exposing one half of its cavity; and a longitudinal section of the stomach of the blue shark caught at Hastings and purchased by Colonel Bothwell of the Scotch Greys. The work is inscribed with the plate number. Not signed. Several pencil inscriptions on scale have been wholly or in part erased. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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