Paintings, ovaries of a pig by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Description

Plate 9, figures 3-6 showing external and internal views of a pig's ovaries during and after a sow's pregnancy. The figures were rearranged from the vertical layout in this original plate to horizontal pairings in the published version, with the addition of two other figures. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Anatomy / Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On Corpora Lutea' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 14 January 1819.

Reference number

PT/73/7/10

Earliest possible date

1818

Physical description

Watercolour on artists' paper

Page extent

1 page

Format

Watercolour

Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library

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