Painting, vertebrae of Squalus maximus [basking shark] by [William Clift]
Reference number: PT/73/2/1
Date: 1809
Description
Plate 5 showing a longitudinal section of one of the intervertebral joints of the Squalus maximus, after the fluid had been evacuated, and the parts had been steeped in water. According to a later account by Everard Home, the basking shark [Cetorhinus maximus] was caught at Hastings [East Sussex, England], purchased by Colonel Bothwell and examined by William Clift before parts of it were brought to London. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso and an inscription 'Plate V. Next plate to Mr Troughton's last'.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of a paper titled 'On the nature of the intervertebral substance in fish and quadrupeds' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 23 February 1809.
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- PT/73/2/1
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- 1809
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- Watercolour on paper
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- Watercolour
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William Clift, Everard Home, Painting, vertebrae of Squalus maximus [basking shark] by [William Clift], 1809, PT/73/2/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_2_1/painting-vertebrae-of-squalus-maximus-basking-shark-by-william-clift, accessed on 04 November 2024
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Related Publications
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On the nature of the intervertebral substance in fish and quadrupeds External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1832
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0181
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IX. On the nature of the intervertebral substance in fish and quadrupeds External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1809
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1809.0011
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First part of paper, 'On the nature of the intervertebral substance in fish, and quadrupeds' by Everard Home
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Second part of paper, 'On the nature of the intervertebral substance in fish, and quadrupeds' by Everard Home
Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/3/10
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 99
1809 Creator: William Clift , Everard Home Reference number: PT/73/2
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