Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8650
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Human ovary
Date
1817
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 209mm
width (painting): 265mm
width (painting): 265mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 10 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. Section through the left ovary and fallopian tube. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer del:". Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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