Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8661
Looking for a special gift? Buy a print of this image.
Human stomach
Date
1817
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 183mm
width (painting): 265mm
width (painting): 265mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 20 from the paper "Observations on the gastric glands of the human stomach, and the contraction which takes place in that viscus", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.347-352. Exterior view of a distended stomach, separating the pyloric and cardiac portions. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "W. Clift del." Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "J Whatman...”
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Associated place