Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8651
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Human ovum
Date
1817
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 232mm
width (painting): 145mm
width (painting): 145mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 11 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. Four views of the ovum including under magnification. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer.". Inscribed verso "Fig.1. natural size. Figs: 2. 3.4. magnified 25 times Diam: or 625 times Superficies." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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