Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8716
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    Goose eye

    Date
    1821
    Creator
    Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 254mm
    width (painting): 177mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Plate 11 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. Five figures showing internal details of a goose eye under magnification, including details of the retina, lens and choroid membrane. 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.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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