Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8580
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    "gizzard of the Soland goose..."

    Date
    1812
    Creator
    William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 275mm
    width (painting): 190mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Plate 11 from the paper "On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.102 (1812), pp.394-404. Section of the gizzard of the Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus). The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso with the inscription "Soland Goose Natl. Size."
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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