Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8612
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Heart of Lophius piscatorius [Angler fish]
Date
1813
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (painting): 274mm
width (painting): 188mm
width (painting): 188mm
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Description
Plate 22 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. View of the heart of the Angler showing the auricle, ventricle, branchial artery and valve. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. 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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