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Embryo development in a hen's egg

Date

1822

Creator

Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist

Object type

painting
illustration

Archive reference number

PT/73/9/39

Material

watercolour
board

Dimensions

height (painting): 255mm
width (painting): 179mm

Subject

Biology
   > Anatomy
Biology
   > Zoology
      > Ornithology
Biology
   > Reproductive biology

Content object

nature
> animal
> bird

Description

Plate 36 from the paper "Observations on the changes the egg undergoes during incubation in the common fowl", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.339-356. Nine figures showing development within an egg from five days after incubation commences to seven days' incubation. With publication and plate details inscribed. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer". Royal Society stamp verso.

Object history

An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Associated place

<The World>
> Europe
> United Kingdom

Credit

Image number

RS.8746