Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8581
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Cardiac cavities and gizzards of birds
Date
1812
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 275mm
width (drawing): 191mm
width (drawing): 191mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 12 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. Line drawings of four figures showing internal structures of the woodpecker, seagull and little auk. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and below "These four figures to form one plate and may be placed nearer each other if necessary." Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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