Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8577
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Auditory structures in Balaena mysticetus [Bowhead whale]
Date
1811
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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height (painting): 330mm
width (painting): 230mm
width (painting): 230mm
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Description
Plate 2 from the paper "An account of some peculiarities in the structure of the organ of hearing in the Balaena mysticetus of Linaeus", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.102 (1812), pp.83-89. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Wm.Clift del.1811." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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