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    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
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 283mm
    width (painting): 222mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    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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