Cardiac cavities and gizzards of birds Size:M: 75 x 50cm and little weather protection

and little weather protection

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Scene in the cobbled courtyard of Whitbread's brewery as workers load barrels of beer onto carts pulled by shire horses

late 19th-early 20th century

Cardiac cavities and gizzards of birds Size:M: 75 x 50cm and little weather protectionPlate 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