Paintings, great diving beetle legs by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Description

Plate 20, figures 1-16 showing sixteen views and details of legs from a male specimen of the great diving beetle [Dytiscus marginalis] at x25, x100, x400, x900, and x40,000 magnification. The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details, the latter repeated. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso.

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/73/5/22

Earliest possible date

1816

Physical description

Watercolour on artists' board

Page extent

1 page

Format

Watercolour

Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library

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