Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8751
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Dissected chick
Date
1822
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 255mm
width (painting): 180mm
width (painting): 180mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 41 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. Four figures showing the fully developed chick one day after hatching and dissected to show the development of the major organs. 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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