RefNo | PT/73/3/6 |
Level | Item |
Title | Drawing, cardiac cavities and gizzards of birds by [William Clift] |
Date | [1812] |
Description | Plate 12 containing line drawings of four figures showing the internal structures of the woodpecker, seagull, and little auk. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and below 'These four figures to form one plate and may be placed nearer each other if necessary.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 18 June 1812. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Drawing |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Dimensions | 275x191mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1812.0023 |
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0255 |
URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8581 |
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 |