Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8595
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Cassowary [gizzard]
Date
1812
Creator
John Howship (1781 - 1841, British) , Surgeon
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 248mm
width (painting): 176mm
width (painting): 176mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 4, from the paper "A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the Ardea argala, the Casuarius emu, and the long-legged Casowary from New South Wales", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.103 (1813), pp.77-81. View of the gizzard of the "Casaurius Emu" [Northern or dwarf cassowary?] of Java. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details, the plate number repeated lower right. 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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