Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8622
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Feet of Lacerta gecko and house-fly with gripping organ of the suckerfish
Date
1816
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 295mm
width (painting): 220mm
width (painting): 220mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 8 figures 2-5 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. A comparison of the gripping anatomies of lizards, flies and Echineis remora, the suckerfish. Five drawings in total with a duplicate version of the final figure 1. The original figure numbers have been scored through after the addition of the eventual figure 4, pasted onto the sheet. Figures 4-5 are copied by Clift from earlier works by G Adams (1746) and Christofle Keller (1766). 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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