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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
Earliest possible date
1809
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Watercolour on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Watercolour

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William Clift

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Everard Home

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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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    Dates: 1802-1865

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