Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8680
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Ovaries of the hen
Date
1819
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 265mm
width (painting): 182mm
width (painting): 182mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 19 figure 4 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. Back view of the hen ovary. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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