Paintings, bluebottle fly and fever-fly legs by Franz [Andreas] Bauer
Reference number: PT/73/5/20
Date: 1816

Description
Plate 18, figures 1-11 showing eleven views and details of legs from the bluebottle [Musca vomitoria] and fever-fly [Bibio febrilis] at x100 and x6400 magnification. The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details, the latter repeated. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso, with an inscription in ink: 'Fig. 1, and fig. 8 magnified 100 times. Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9, 10, 11 magnified 6,400 times.'
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 27 June 1816.
- Reference number
- PT/73/5/20
- Earliest possible date
- 1816
- Physical description
- Watercolour on artists' board, mounted
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Watercolour
- Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
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Creator names
Franz Andreas Bauer

Everard Home

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Franz Andreas Bauer, Everard Home, Paintings, bluebottle fly and fever-fly legs by Franz [Andreas] Bauer, 1816, PT/73/5/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_5_20/paintings-bluebottle-fly-and-fever-fly-legs-by-franz-andreas-bauer, accessed on 17 June 2025
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Related Publications
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Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0044
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XXIII. Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1816
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0024
Related Records
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Paper, 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity' by Sir Everard Home
Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/10/23
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 106
1815-1816 Reference number: PT/73/5
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Franz Andreas Bauer
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Everard Home
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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