Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8756
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    Cat foetus and placenta

    Date
    1822
    Creator
    William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 269mm
    width (painting): 216mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Plate 46 figure 1 from the paper "On the placenta", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.401-407. View of the foetus of a cat enclosed within its circular placenta. Outline pencil sketches of figures 2-3 from the same plate are visible to the right of the main image. 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.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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