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    Image number: RS.8633
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    Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs

    Date
    1816
    Creator
    Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 238mm
    width (painting): 154mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    Description
    Plate 18 figures 1-11 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. Eleven views and details of legs from the Bluebottle (Musca vomitoria) and Fever-fly (Bibio febrilis) at x100 and x6,400 magnification. The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details the latter repeated. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer". Royal Society stamp verso, with an inscription in ink: "Fig. 1, and fig.8 magnified 100 times. Figs. 2,3,4,5,6,7 and 9,10,11 magnified 6,400 times."
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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