Lumbricus terrestris [Earthworm] dissected D Hulme Ornithological study of two parakeets

Ornithological study of two parakeets

20th November 1982

Outline pencil sketches of figures 2-3 from the same plate are visible to the right of the main image

Queen of Bohemia

Lumbricus terrestris [Earthworm] dissected D Hulme Ornithological study of two parakeetsPlate 3 figure 4 from the paper 'An account of the circulation of the blood in the class Vermes of Linnaeus, and the principle explained in which it differs from that in the higher classes', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 1 12. Inscribed lower left 'Back view.' The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on paper. 1816