RefNo | PT/73/3/2 |
Level | Item |
Title | Painting, internal section of the auditory structures in Balaena mysticetus [bowhead whale] by Wm [William] Clift |
Date | 1811 |
Description | Plate 2 showing an internal section of the organs of hearing in the bowhead whale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Wm. Clift del. 1811.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An account of some peculiarities in the structure of the organ of hearing in the Balæna Mysticetus of Linnæus' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 12 December 1811. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Watercolour |
PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1812.0005 |
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0237 |
RelatedRecord | PT/6/2 |
URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8577 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |