Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8750
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Chicken embryo
Date
1822
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 254mm
width (painting): 179mm
width (painting): 179mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 40 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 embryo within the egg at twenty days' incubation, the chick removed from the egg, and dissected to show the yolk 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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