Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8752
Looking for a special gift? Buy a print of this image.
Human placenta
Date
1822
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 265mm
width (painting): 216mm
width (painting): 216mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 42 from the paper "On the placenta", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.401-407. View of the foetal surface of the human placenta. With publication and plate details inscribed. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "J Whatman 1818".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Associated place