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Earl of Beaconsfield

von Olfers (Berlin

Inscribed: 'Tab V

Westminster in connection with Westminster Abbey's 900th anniversary celebration

'Human [stomach] to show the Glands...' Size:S: 50 x 40cm Earl of BeaconsfieldPlate 11, figure 1, from the paper 'Observations on the structure of the stomachs of different animals', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 97 (1807), pp. 139 179. Showing the human stomach inverted to show its internal surface. The work is inscribed above with the plate number and below 'Human to show the Glands & contraction. Natural Size.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Embossed lower left 'Bristol

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