RefNo | PT/73/10/5 |
Level | Item |
Title | Painting, Indian elephant eardrum and mastoid cells by W [William] Clift |
Date | [1822] |
Description | Plate 4 showing the eardrum of a three-week-old Indian elephant in situ with the mastoid cells. From a specimen provided by Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left [viewed in lanscape format] 'W. Clift.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the difference of structure between the human membrana tympani and that of the elephant' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 12 December 1822. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Watercolour |
PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on paper |
Dimensions | 182x238mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0199 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0005 |
RelatedRecord | PT/16/3 |
URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9889 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
NA7464 | Raffles; Sir; Thomas Stamford Bingley (1781 - 1826) | 1781 - 1826 |
NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |