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The feet of the Lacerta gecko and the house-fly with the gripping organ of the suckerfish

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Date

1816

Artist

William Clift (1775-1849)

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Plate 8 figures 2-5 from the paper "Some account of the feet of those animals whose progressive motion can be carried on in opposition to gravity", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.106 (1816), pp.149-155. A comparison of the gripping anatomies of lizards, flies and Echineis remora, the suckerfish. Five drawings in total with a duplicate version of the final figure 1. The original figure numbers have been scored through after the addition of the eventual figure 4, pasted onto the sheet. Figures 4-5 are copied by Clift from earlier works by G Adams (1746) and Christofle Keller (1766). The painting is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.

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Location

Java, Indonesia

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Reptiles

Category

Glossary
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