Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8591
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"Eagle [solvent gland]"
Date
1812
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 198mm
width (drawing): 125mm
width (drawing): 125mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Detail, 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. The work is inscribed above with date and plate details above and right "Eagle." Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Partial watermark "[ ? ]sell [18]10."
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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