Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8712
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Human eye
Date
1821
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 253mm
width (painting): 179mm
width (painting): 179mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 7 from the Croonian Lecture paper "On the anatomical structure of the eye; illustrated by microscopical drawings, executed by F.Bauer, Esq.", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.76-85. Nine figures of internal eye structures under magnification, including details of the iris, choroid and ciliary muscle. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer del." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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