| RefNo | PT/73/8/20 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, gastric glands of the dugong by [William Clift] |
| Date | [1820] |
| Description | Plate 27, figure 1 showing a study of what Everard Home terms 'the gastric glands in one mass, and the oesophageal glands, with orifices exposed...' of the dugong [Dugong dugon]. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details and a note for printing: 'Fig. 1 may be so much reduced in breadth, to get the two figures into the plate'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Particulars respecting the anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a supplement to Sir T. S. Raffles' account of that animal' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 29 June 1820. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on paper |
| Dimensions | 286x222mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0135 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0021 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/14/25 |
| URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8700 |
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 |