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                                 Image number: RS.8664
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Human ovary and corpus luteum at different ages
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                                1818
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (painting): 267mm
width (painting): 182mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (painting): 182mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Plate 3 from the paper "On the corpora lutea", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.109 (1819), pp.59-69.  Seven figures based upon the anatomy of women aged 12, 20 and 47 years of age.  The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer." Royal Society stamp verso.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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