Reference number | PT/75/1/25 |
Level | Item |
Title | Painting, 'Scleratic vessels at the margin of the cornea' by H Holmes |
Date | 12 August 1840 |
Description | Plate 16, figure 2 showing blood vessels located in the substance of the scleratic membrane where the cornea attaches, magnified 30x. Inscribed with title, publication, and plate details. A thin covering sheet reads 'No. 15' in ink recto; description of plate verso. Signed in ink bottom right 'H. Holmes Aug. 12. 1840.'
Subject: Physiology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Researches, tending to prove the non-vascularity and the peculiar uniform mode of organization and nutrition of certain animal tissues, viz. articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro-cartilage; the cornea, the crystalline lens, and the vitreous humour; and the epidermoid appendages' by Joseph Toynbee.
Received by the Royal Society on 21 April 1841. Read 20 May 1841. |
Extent | 3p |
Format | Watercolour |
Physical description | Watercolour on artists' paper |
Dimensions | 208x176mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1841.0015 |
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0167 |
Related records in the catalogue | PT/25/6 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA7525 | Toynbee; Joseph (1815 - 1866) | 1815 - 1866 |