'Dormouse [stomach]' mb-artist S_Woodward marches unsuspectingly towards sudden death

marches unsuspectingly towards sudden death

10th October 1978

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'Dormouse [stomach]' mb-artist S_Woodward marches unsuspectingly towards sudden deathPlate 6, figures 4 and 5 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 external and internal views of the stomach of a dormouse. The work is inscribed above with publishing and plate details, figure descriptions, and below 'Natural Size. Dormouse.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on board.