| RefNo | PT/73/4/15 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, heart of the Squalus maximus [basking shark] by J [John] Howship |
| Date | [1813] |
| Description | Plate 18 showing a section of the basking shark's heart. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and with the scale '2 Inches to a Foot'. There is a faint pencil memo below 'NB eee are not marked in this Drawing.' The upper right portion of the work has new paper pasted over at figures e-f, presumably to cover an error in the original painting beneath. Signed 'J. Howship. delt.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Additions to an account of the anatomy of the Squalus maximus, contained in a former paper; with observations on the structure of the branchial artery' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 24 June 1813. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink wash on paper |
| Dimensions | 250x194mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0282 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1813.0030 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/7/27 |
| URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8608 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |