Earthworm
Date
1823
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 253mm
width (painting): 179mm
width (painting): 179mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 16 from the paper "On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, the barnacle, and the earthworm, which impregnate themselves; though the last from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.113 (1823), pp.140-151. Figure 1 shows a back view of the earthworm, x2 magnification; figure 2 shows the same worm under dissection, x2 magnification; figure 3 is the upper portion of the same, showing details of the arteries, ovaries and testicles, x4 magnification. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left "Franz Bauer del." Royal Society stamp verso. Figures 1-2 are on the same board which has been pasted together with figure 3 on a single backing sheet.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 113.
Associated place
Credit
© The Royal Society
Image number
RS.9903