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                                 Image number: RS.8661
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Human stomach
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                                1817
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (painting): 183mm
width (painting): 265mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (painting): 265mm
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                                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...”
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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