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Paintings, human ovum by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Reference number: PT/73/6/13

Date: 1817

Description

Plate 11 showing a human ovum. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Inscribed verso 'Fig. 1. natural size. Figs: 2. 3.4. magnified 25 times Diam [diameter]: or 625 times Superficies.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the passage of the ovum from the ovarium to the uterus in women' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 1 May 1817.

Reference number
PT/73/6/13
Earliest possible date
1817
Physical description
Ink wash on artists' paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Painting
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Franz Andreas Bauer

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Everard Home

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Franz Andreas Bauer, Everard Home, Paintings, human ovum by Franz [Andreas] Bauer, 1817, PT/73/6/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_6_13/paintings-human-ovum-by-franz-andreas-bauer, accessed on 15 January 2025

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