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    Image number: RS.8585
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    "Parrot [gizzard]"

    Date
    1812
    Creator
    William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 276mm
    width (painting): 192mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Plate 13, figures 1-2, 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. The external and internal views of the crop, cardiac cavity and gizzard of the parrot. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right "Parrot." 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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