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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): 264mm
    width (painting): 180mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    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.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
    Credit
    © The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.8670
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