Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8632
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Lacerta gecko toes
Date
1816
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 278mm
width (painting): 200mm
width (painting): 200mm
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Description
Plate 17 figures 1-6 from the paper "Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.106 (1816), pp.322-330. Six views of the third toe of the lizard at x100 and x2,500 magnification. The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details the latter repeated lower right. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer". Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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