Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8715
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Goose eye
Date
1821
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 257mm
width (painting): 175mm
width (painting): 175mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 10 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. Eleven figures showing internal details of a goose eye under magnification, including the marsupium, iris, muscles and lens. 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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