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Painting, guinea pig foetus and placenta by [William Clift]

Reference number: PT/73/9/53

Date: 01 January 1822

Description

Plate 47, figure 3 showing a view of a guinea pig foetus and placenta. With publication and plate details inscribed. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the placenta' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 27 June 1822.

Reference number
PT/73/9/53
Earliest possible date
01 January 1822
Physical description
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, guinea pig foetus and placenta by [William Clift], 01 January 1822, PT/73/9/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_9_53/painting-guinea-pig-foetus-and-placenta-by-william-clift, accessed on 19 January 2025

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