Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8586
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"American ostrich [Rhea gizzard]"
Date
1812
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (painting): 276mm
width (painting): 192mm
width (painting): 192mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 14, 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. External view of the cardiac cavity and gizzard of the Rhea, quarter scale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper left "American Ostrich." 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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