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Painting, gravid uterus, placenta, and membranes by Joseph Perry

Reference number: PT/73/15/2

Date: 02 August 1831

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Plate 2 showing a section of the gravid [pregnant] uterus, placenta, and membranes, including the membrana decidua, chorion, amnion, and umbilical cord. Inscribed with publication and plate details. A graphite inscription across the top reads 'Section of the gravid uterus placenta and membranes from a preparation in the R [Royal] College of Surgeons'. Signed in ink in bottom right, 'Joseph Perry del.' and below 'August 2. 1831.'

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the structure of the human placenta, and its connexion with the uterus' by Robert Lee.

Read to the Royal Society on 17 November 1831.

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PT/73/15/2
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02 August 1831
Physical description
Ink wash on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Painting

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Robert Lee

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Robert Lee, Painting, gravid uterus, placenta, and membranes by Joseph Perry, 02 August 1831, PT/73/15/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_15_2/painting-gravid-uterus-placenta-and-membranes-by-joseph-perry, accessed on 19 July 2026

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    The 'Philosophical Transactions' collection comprises manuscript versions of papers published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s first and longest continuously running journal dedicated to science.

    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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