Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8740
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Vertebrae of the spines of birds
Date
1822
Creator
Henry Earle (1789 - 1838, British) , Surgeon
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 286mm
width (drawing): 187mm
width (drawing): 187mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Unused illustration intended for the paper "On the mechanism of the spine", by Henry Earle, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.276-283. Five figures of spinal vertebrae inscribed in pencil "NB This drawing was cancelled, and another substituted for it! T.C." [Taylor Combe]. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed "Mr H.Earle 28 George St. Hanover Square". Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "Slade".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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