Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8648
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Human uterus
Date
1817
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 209mm
width (painting): 265mm
width (painting): 265mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 8 from the paper "On the passage of the ovum from the ovaria to the uterus in women" by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.252-261. The painting is taken from the body of an anonymous 21-year old servant maid who died on 15 January 1817, according to Clift, in a very early stage of pregnancy. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer del:". Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "J Whatman 1804".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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