Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8671
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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): 263mm
width (painting): 180mm
width (painting): 180mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 9 figures 3-6 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 during and after a sow's pregnancy. The figures were rearranged from the vertical layout in this original plate to horizontal pairings in the published version, with the addition of two other figures. 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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