Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8596
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"N.S.W. Cassowary [gizzard]"
Date
1812
Creator
John Howship (1781 - 1841, British) , Surgeon
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 256mm
width (painting): 183mm
width (painting): 183mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 5, 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 Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) of New South Wales, Australia. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details in ink, repeated in pencil. Inscribed "N.S.W. Cassowary 4 inches to a foot" lower right, with the plate number repeated again. Not signed, the note "del."appears lower left but is not completed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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