'Rhea americana [gizzard]' Finish:Rolled October 1965

October 1965

Parsonage House

one in the act of jumping

The plate bears the inscription: 'Fanis Sextantis Posterior 7 ped: Rad:

Proposal for roof covering quadrangle of the Royal Exchange

'Rhea americana [gizzard]' Finish:Rolled October 1965Plate 15, 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. Internal view of the cardiac cavity and gizzard of the Rhea, quarter scale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right 'Rhea