Painting, vertebrae and ribs of a boa constrictor by [William Clift]
Reference number: PT/73/3/3
Date: 01 January 1812
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Plate 6 showing the vertebrae and ribs of a boa constrictor. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Observations intended to show that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 27 February 1812.
- Reference number
- PT/73/3/3
- Earliest possible date
- 01 January 1812
- Physical description
- Ink and ink wash on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
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- Painting
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William Clift, Everard Home, Painting, vertebrae and ribs of a boa constrictor by [William Clift], 01 January 1812, PT/73/3/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_3_3/painting-vertebrae-and-ribs-of-a-boa-constrictor-by-william-clift, accessed on 15 August 2026
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Related Publications
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Observations intended to show that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1832
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0243
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IX. Observations intended to show that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1812
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1812.0011
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Paper, 'Observations intended to shew that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs' by Everard Home
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Creator: James Everard Home, William Clift Reference number: PT/7/27i
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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 102
1811-1812 Reference number: PT/73/3
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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