Painting, Lacerta gecko by [William Clift]
Reference number: PT/73/5/8
Date: 1816
Description
Plate 7 showing the Lacerta gecko. The lizard specimen was procured by Sir Joseph Banks apparently from Java [Indonesia]. The painting 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 'Some account of the feet of those animals whose progressive motion can be carried on in opposition to gravity' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 22 February 1816.
- Reference number
- PT/73/5/8
- Earliest possible date
- 1816
- Physical description
- Ink wash on paper
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- 1 page
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- Painting
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William Clift, Everard Home, Painting, Lacerta gecko by [William Clift], 1816, PT/73/5/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_5_8/painting-lacerta-gecko-by-william-clift, accessed on 15 November 2025
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Some account of the feet of those animals whose progressive motion can be carried on in opposition to gravity External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0031
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IX. Some account of the feet of those animals whose progressive motion can be carried on in opposition to gravity External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1816
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0010
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Paper, 'Some account of the feet of those animals whose progressive motion can be carried on in opposition to gravity' by Sir Everard Home
Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/10/9
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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 106
1815-1816 Reference number: PT/73/5
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William Clift
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Everard Home
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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