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    Image number: RS.8686
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    An unborn child

    Date
    1819
    Creator
    Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 255mm
    width (painting): 176mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Plate 7 from the paper "A case of the human foetus found in the ovarium, of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth month", by Augustus Bozzi Granville, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.110 (1820), pp.101-107. A study of a foetus belonging to 39-year old woman who died of internal haemorrhage during pregnancy. The painting shows surrounding tissues inlcuding the placenta, Fallopian tube and corpus luteum. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed and dated lower left "Franz Bauer del. 1819." Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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