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            Lumbricus marinus [Lugworm] dissected
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                                1816
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (painting): 286mm
width (painting): 223mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (painting): 223mm
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                                Plate 3 figure 2 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. Inscribed uper left "laid open on the Back between the Branchiae." The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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