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            Heart of the Sepia officinalis [Common cuttlefish]
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                                1816
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (painting): 283mm
width (painting): 222mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (painting): 222mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Plate 1 from the paper "An account of the circulation of the blood in the class Vermes of Linnaeus, and the principle explained in which it differs from that in the higher classes", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.1-12. Posterior view of cuttlefish organs. 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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