Painting, 'N.S.W. [New South Wales] cassowary [gizzard]' by [John Howship]

Description

Plate 5 showing a view of the gizzard of the southern cassowary [Casuarius casuarius] of New South Wales, Australia. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details in ink, repeated in pencil. Inscribed 'N.S.W. Cassowary 4 inches to a foot' lower right, with the plate number repeated again. Not signed; the note 'del.' appears lower left but is not completed. 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/73/4/4

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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