Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8585
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"Parrot [gizzard]"
Date
1812
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 276mm
width (painting): 192mm
width (painting): 192mm
Subject
Content object
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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