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Vertebrae of the spines of birds

Date

1822

Object type

drawing
illustration

Archive reference number

PT/73/9/34

Material

ink
paper

Dimensions

height (drawing): 268mm
width (drawing): 208mm

Subject

Biology
   > Anatomy
Biology
   > Zoology
      > Ornithology

Content object

nature
> animal
> bird

Description

Plate 30 from the paper "On the mechanism of the spine", by Henry Earle, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.276-283. Six figures of spinal vertebrae showing articulation. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "[Turk]ey Mills [J Wh]atman 1820".

Object history

An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Associated place

<The World>
> Europe
> United Kingdom

Credit

Image number

RS.8741