Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8587
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"Rhea americana [gizzard]"
Date
1812
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (painting): 276mm
width (painting): 191mm
width (painting): 191mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 15, 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. Internal view of the cardiac cavity and gizzard of the Rhea, quarter scale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right "Rhea Americana." Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso, with corresponding outline drawing.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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