Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8607
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Stomach and duodenum of the Squalus maximus [Basking shark]
Date
1813
Creator
John Howship (1781 - 1841, British) , Surgeon
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Dimensions
height (painting): 250mm
width (painting): 214mm
width (painting): 214mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 17 from the paper "Additions to an account of the anatomy of the Squalus maximus, contained in a former paper; with observations on the structure of the branchial artery", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.103 (1813), pp.227-241. From an original specimen caught at Brighton and brought to London for dissection in December 1812. Internal view of the stomach and duodenum. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and with the scale "One Inch to a Foot." Signed "J. Howship. delt." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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