Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8679
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Ovaries of the hen
Date
1819
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 267mm
width (painting): 180mm
width (painting): 180mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 19 figures 1-3 from the paper "On the ova of the different tribes of Opossum and Ornithorhynchus", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.109 (1819), pp.234-240. Front view and details of the hen ovary. 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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