Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8637
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Grasshopper legs
Date
1816
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 238mm
width (painting): 154mm
width (painting): 154mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 21 figures 7-9 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. Three leg details from a specimen of British grasshopper (Acrydium biguttulum). The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details, the latter repeated and figure numbers amended. Pencil inscription below: "Small Common Grasshopper of the Garden" [?] and in ink "magnified 2500 times". Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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