Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8621
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Lacerta gecko
Date
1816
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 302mm
width (painting): 218mm
width (painting): 218mm
Subject
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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.
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