Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8747
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Embryo development in a hen's egg
Date
1822
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 254mm
width (painting): 178mm
width (painting): 178mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 37 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 eight days after incubation commences to ten days' incubation. With publication and plate details inscribed. 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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