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Plate 3 containing figures 1 and 2. Figure 1 shows the human eardrum at natural size; figure 2 under magnification. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Inscribed verso: 'Lecture 9 Pl.I.-' Signed in ink lower left '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.

Reference number
PT/73/10/3
Earliest possible date
1822
Physical description
Watercolour on artists' board
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Watercolour

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William Clift

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Everard Home

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William Clift, Everard Home, Paintings, human eardrums by W [William] Clift, 1822, PT/73/10/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_10_3/paintings-human-eardrums-by-w-william-clift, accessed on 09 February 2026

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