RefNo | PT/73/4/3 |
Level | Item |
Title | Painting, cassowary gizzard by [John Howship] |
Date | [1812?] |
Description | Plate 4 showing a view of the gizzard of the 'Casaurius Emu' [Northern or dwarf cassowary?] of Java [Indonesia]. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details, the plate number repeated lower right. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the ardea argala, the casuarius emu, and the long-legged casowary from New South Wales' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 17 December 1812. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Painting |
PhysicalDescription | Ink wash on paper |
Dimensions | 248x176mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0264 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1813.0012 |
RelatedRecord | PT/7/9 |
URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8595 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |