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                                 Image number: RS.8753
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Human placenta
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                                1822
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (painting): 264mm
width (painting): 217mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (painting): 217mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Plate 43 from the paper "On the placenta", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.401-407. View of the uterine surface of the human placenta. With publication and plate details inscribed. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Object history
                            
                            
                                An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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