Painting, 'Adjutant or argala [gizzard]' by J [John] Howship

Description

Plate 3 showing a view of the gizzard of the greater adjutant [Leptoptilos dubius]. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and the name 'Adjutant'. Below, the pencil inscription 'Adjutant of Argala' has been partially erased. The plate number is repeated lower right and the work is signed lower left 'J. Howship del.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the ardea argala, the casuarius emu, and the long-legged casowary from New South Wales' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 17 December 1812.

Reference number

PT/73/4/2

Earliest possible date

1812?

Physical description

Ink wash on paper

Page extent

1 page

Format

Painting

Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library

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