Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8670
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Ovaries of a pig
Date
1818
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 264mm
width (painting): 180mm
width (painting): 180mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 9 figures 1-2 from the paper "On the corpora lutea", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.109 (1819), pp.59-69. External and internal views of a pig's ovaries showing corpora lutea. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed left "Franz Bauer." Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "[17] 94 [J Wh]atman".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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