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Paintings, sexual organs of female pheasant by E Farrer

Reference number: PT/73/13/4

Date: 1827

Description

Plate 12, figures 1-2 showing side-by-side views of the sexual organs of a female pheasant under dissection, appearing healthy in figure 1 and diseased and discoloured in figure 2. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in pencil bottom left 'Drawn by E. Farrer.' Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Zoology

Published in volume 117 of Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the change in the plumage of some hen-pheasants' by William Yarrell.

Read to the Royal Society on 10 May 1827.

Reference number
PT/73/13/4
Earliest possible date
1827
Physical description
Watercolour on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Watercolour

Creator name

E Farrer

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E Farrer, Paintings, sexual organs of female pheasant by E Farrer, 1827, PT/73/13/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_13_4/paintings-sexual-organs-of-female-pheasant-by-e-farrer, accessed on 13 July 2025

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