Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8592
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Solvent glands of birds
Date
1812
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 176mm
width (drawing): 176mm
width (drawing): 176mm
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. Solvent glands of various named birds. Date and plate details above. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso with key inscription. Lightly inscribed in pencil throughout.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Associated place