Paintings, human umbilical cord by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Description

Plate 4, figures 1-5 showing details of the umbilical cord of a human both intact and unravelled, highlighting the external membrane, nerves, and amnion. Figures 1-3 and 5 are magnified 4x; figure 4 is magnified 10x. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' Royal Society stamp verso. Embossed stamp in top left corner reads 'Bristol Paper'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'The Croonian Lecture. On the existence of nerves in the placenta' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 18 November 1824.

Reference number

PT/73/11/4

Earliest possible date

1824

Physical description

Watercolour on paper

Page extent

1 page

Format

Watercolour