Freshwater mussel and pearls
Date
1826
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Illustrator
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 240mm
width (painting): 188mm
width (painting): 188mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Watercolour painting showing a large cross-section of a freshwater mussel, including the foot, oviduct, and shell lining, as well as details of pearl formation.
Plate 13, figures 1-6 from Everard Home's paper titled 'On the production and formation of pearls', published in volume 116 of Philosophical Transactions.
Inscribed with publication and plate details. Mostly illegible pencil inscription in top right corner. Signed in pencil bottom left 'Franz Bauer del:'. Royal Society stamp verso.
Everard Home (1756-1832) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787. He was the recipient of the Copley Medal in 1807, delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1790, 1793-1796, 1798-1801, 1817-1821, 1823-1827, and 1829, and served as Vice President of the Society from 1814-1830.
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821. He delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1822.
Plate 13, figures 1-6 from Everard Home's paper titled 'On the production and formation of pearls', published in volume 116 of Philosophical Transactions.
Inscribed with publication and plate details. Mostly illegible pencil inscription in top right corner. Signed in pencil bottom left 'Franz Bauer del:'. Royal Society stamp verso.
Everard Home (1756-1832) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787. He was the recipient of the Copley Medal in 1807, delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1790, 1793-1796, 1798-1801, 1817-1821, 1823-1827, and 1829, and served as Vice President of the Society from 1814-1830.
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821. He delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1822.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Related fellows
Everard Home, 1st Baronet (1756 - 1832, British) , Surgeon
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Illustrator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Illustrator