Paintings, human ovary and corpus luteum during and after pregnancy by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Description

Plate 4, figures 1-5 and plate 5, figures 5-6. These seven original figures were divided between two plates on publication, removing two vews of the ovary of a woman of 70 years of age (figures 6-7, not numbered). The others (figures 1-5, numbered) show the ovary and corpus luteum five days and six weeks after impregnation. 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/73/7/4

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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