Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8583
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"Larus canus" [Common gull gizzard]
Date
1812
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (painting): 277mm
width (painting): 190mm
width (painting): 190mm
Subject
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Description
[Part of] 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. Figure 3, the internal appearance of the cardiac cavity and gizzard in the seagull. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right "Larus Canus.Natural size." 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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