Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8749
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Hen's egg and dissected embryo
Date
1822
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 255mm
width (painting): 179mm
width (painting): 179mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 39 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. Three figures showing the egg at eighteen days' development with the egg opened to show the embryo in situ: and the embryo dissected to show the yolk being drawn into the body. 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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