Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8681
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Coagulated human blood and crystals
Date
1819
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 266mm
width (painting): 182mm
width (painting): 182mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 1 from the Croonian Lecture paper "A farther investigation of the component parts of the blood", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.110 (1820), pp.1-10. Section through an 'anuerismal tumor' with two views of crystalized salts under magnification. Figure 1 appearing here on the bottom of the plate was moved in the published version, the subject of a pencilled note to the engraver, lower left: "NB Figure 1 to be placed at the top of the Plate." 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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