Cardiac cavities and gizzards of birds Size:Large: 7 x 5in 13th December 1998

13th December 1998

London aldermen around and on an empty table

was created in 1513

squared collar

Watt's Shot Tower on the Lambeth bank of the River Thames is in the foreground

Cardiac cavities and gizzards of birds Size:Large: 7 x 5in 13th December 1998Plate 12 from the paper 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 394 404. Line drawings of four figures showing internal structures of the woodpecker, seagull and little auk. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details