Cat embryo
Date
1855
Creator
Anders Retzius (1796 - 1860, Swedish) , Anatomist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 90mm
width (drawing): 78mm
width (drawing): 78mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Sketch of a cat embryo with key anatomical features marked, shown at natural size.
Unpublished illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “Anatomical notices” by Anders Retzius in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.7 (1854-1855), pp.437-439. Figures 1-2 were published and are not preserved with the manuscript. The unused figure 3 was kept.
Inscribed in ink: ‘Fig. 3 Katzen Embryo’. Not signed.
Anders Retzius was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a Professor of Anatomy and worked at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
Unpublished illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “Anatomical notices” by Anders Retzius in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.7 (1854-1855), pp.437-439. Figures 1-2 were published and are not preserved with the manuscript. The unused figure 3 was kept.
Inscribed in ink: ‘Fig. 3 Katzen Embryo’. Not signed.
Anders Retzius was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a Professor of Anatomy and worked at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
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