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    Deer, sheep and goat placenta details

    Date
    1822
    Creator
    William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 279mm
    width (painting): 216mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Plate 48 figures 3-5 from the paper "On the placenta", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.401-407. Views of the "terminating vessels" of the placenta of deer [figure 3], sheep [figure 4] and goat [figure 5]. 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
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
    Credit
    © The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.8763
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