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Paintings, human ovary and corpus luteum at different ages by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Reference number: PT/73/7/3

Date: 1818

Description

Plate 3 showing seven figures based upon the anatomy of women aged 12, 20, and 47 years of age. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Anatomy

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/73/7/3
Earliest possible date
1818
Physical description
Watercolour on artists' paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Watercolour
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Franz Andreas Bauer

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Everard Home

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Franz Andreas Bauer, Everard Home, Paintings, human ovary and corpus luteum at different ages by Franz [Andreas] Bauer, 1818, PT/73/7/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_7_3/paintings-human-ovary-and-corpus-luteum-at-different-ages-by-franz-andreas-bauer, accessed on 13 May 2025

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