Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8699
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Stomach of the dugong
Date
1820
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 223mm
width (painting): 286mm
width (painting): 286mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 26 from the paper "Particulars respecting the anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a supplement to Sir T.S.Raffles account of that animal", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.110 (1820), pp.315-323. Study of the distended stomach of a dungong (Dugong dugon). The work is inscribed with publication and plate details and very faint (erased?) pencil inscriptions below the main figure. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "W Turner & Son".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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