Paintings, yellow saw-fly legs by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Description

Plate 19, figures 1-9 showing nine views of legs from the yellow saw-fly [Cimbex lutea] at x100, x400, and x1600 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: 'Figs. 1, 2, 3 are magnified 100 times. Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7 - 400 times and Figs. 8, 9, - 1600 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/73/5/21

Earliest possible date

1816

Physical description

Watercolour on artists' board

Page extent

2 pages

Format

Watercolour

Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library

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