Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8639
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Heart of the Sepia officinalis [Common cuttlefish]
Date
1816
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 283mm
width (painting): 222mm
width (painting): 222mm
Subject
Content object
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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