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

Reference number: PT/73/7/8

Date: 1818

Description

Plate 8 showing internal and external views of pigs' ovaries at different ages and stages of development. 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/73/7/8
Earliest possible date
1818
Physical description
Watercolour on artists' paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Watercolour

Creator names

Franz Andreas Bauer

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Everard Home

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Franz Andreas Bauer, Everard Home, Paintings, ovaries of a pig by Franz [Andreas] Bauer, 1818, PT/73/7/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_7_8/paintings-ovaries-of-a-pig-by-franz-andreas-bauer, accessed on 10 November 2024

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