Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9905
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Earthworm
Date
1823
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 254mm
width (painting): 178mm
width (painting): 178mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 18 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. Figures showing external and dissected details of the earthworm including: figure 5 an external view of the mouth and head; figure 6 the external appearance of the sexual organs. Various magnifications. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left "Franz Bauer del." Royal Society stamp verso. Embossed stamp lower right, crown design with the inscription "Bristol Paper".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 113.
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