Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8762
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Cow placenta
Date
1822
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 265mm
width (painting): 217mm
width (painting): 217mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 48 figure 2 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 foetal portion of the cotyledon [of the cow]." 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