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Image number: RS.8635
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Great diving beetle legs
Date
1816
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 237mm
width (painting): 153mm
width (painting): 153mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 20 figures 1-16 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. Sixteen views and details of legs from a male specimen of the Great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) at x25, x100, x400, x900 and x40,000 magnification. The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details, the latter repeated. 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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