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    Image number: RS.8669
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    Ovaries of a pig

    Date
    1818
    Creator
    Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 265mm
    width (painting): 180mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Plate 8 from the paper "On the corpora lutea", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.109 (1819), pp.59-69. Internal and external views of pigs' ovaries at different ages and stages of development. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer." Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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