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Plate 17 containing eight figures of magnified and sectioned ovaries of animals at different ages. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the ova of the different tribes of opossum and orinthorhynchus' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 25 March 1819.

Reference number
PT/73/7/16
Earliest possible date
1819
Physical description
Ink wash on paper
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, Paintings, ovaries of an American opossum by Franz [Andreas] Bauer, 1819, PT/73/7/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_7_16/paintings-ovaries-of-an-american-opossum-by-franz-andreas-bauer, accessed on 07 November 2025

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