Painting, human uterus and womb by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Reference number: PT/73/8/5

Date: 01 January 1819

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Plate 6 showing a section of the reproductive organs of a 39-year-old woman who died of internal haemorrhage, with a tumour and a pregnancy sited in the ovary. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed and dated lower left 'Franz Bauer del. 1819.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Anatomy / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'A case of the human fœtus found in the ovarium, of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth month' by Augustus Bozzi Granville.

Read to the Royal Society on 13 January 1820.

Reference number: PT/73/8/5
Earliest possible date: 01 January 1819
Physical description: Watercolour on artists' board
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Watercolour
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Franz Andreas Bauer

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Augustus Bozzi Granville

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Franz Andreas Bauer, Augustus Bozzi Granville, Painting, human uterus and womb by Franz [Andreas] Bauer, 01 January 1819, PT/73/8/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_8_5/painting-human-uterus-and-womb-by-franz-andreas-bauer, accessed on 07 November 2025

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A case of the human fœtus found the ovarium, of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth Month. By A. B. Granville, M. D. F. R. S. In a letter addressed to Sir Everard Home, Bart. V. P. R. S External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1833

DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0121
A case of the human fætus found in the ovarium, of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth month. By A. B. Granville, M.D. F. R. S. In a letter addressed to Sir Everard Home, Bart., V. P. R. S External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1820

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0006

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Paper, 'A case of the human foetus met with in the ovarium of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth month' by A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville in a letter to Sir Everard Home
Creator: Augustus Bozzi Granville Reference number: PT/14/7

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This item is part of:

Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions
1802-1865 Reference number: PT
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 110
1819-1820 Reference number: PT/73/8

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Dates: 1802 - 1865

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