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Painting, interior surfaces of the human stomach and duodenum by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Reference number: PT/73/6/22

Date: 1817

Description

Plate 19 showing three figures of surface textures of the pyloric portion of the stomach and the duodenum. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details upper right and magnification notes to the right of each figure. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Anatomy / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Observations on the gastric glands of the human stomach, and the contraction which takes place in that viscus' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 26 June 1817.

Reference number
PT/73/6/22
Earliest possible date
1817
Physical description
Ink wash on artists' board
Page extent
1 page
Format
Painting
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Franz Andreas Bauer

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Everard Home

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Franz Andreas Bauer, Everard Home, Painting, interior surfaces of the human stomach and duodenum by Franz [Andreas] Bauer, 1817, PT/73/6/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_6_22/painting-interior-surfaces-of-the-human-stomach-and-duodenum-by-franz-andreas-bauer, accessed on 23 June 2025

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