Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8713
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Bullock's eye
Date
1821
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 253mm
width (painting): 179mm
width (painting): 179mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 8 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. Ten figures of the external and internal appearance of a bullock's eye with internal structures under magnification. The positions of figures 7 and 9 are reversed in the published plate. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details front and back. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer del." and inscribed in pencil lower right "Is Basire sc." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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