Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8621
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    Lacerta gecko

    Date
    1816
    Creator
    William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 302mm
    width (painting): 218mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > lizard
    Description
    Plate 7 from the paper "Some account of the feet of those animals whose progressive motion can be carried on in opposition to gravity", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.106 (1816), pp.149-155. The lizard specimen was procured by Sir Joseph Banks apparently from Java. The painting is inscribed above 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.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Asia
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