Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8589
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"African ostrich [gizzard]"
Date
1812
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 270mm
width (drawing): 186mm
width (drawing): 186mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 17, 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. Line drawing of an internal view of the gizzard of the African ostrich, one-sixth scale, with a key indicating the order of associated solvent gland figures. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and a key commencing "Solvent Glands. For Animal Food...." 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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