Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8669
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Ovaries of a pig
Date
1818
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 265mm
width (painting): 180mm
width (painting): 180mm
Subject
Content object
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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