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
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 275mm
width (painting): 190mm
width (painting): 190mm
Subject
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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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