| RefNo | PT/73/15/23 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, sexual organs of the female Ornithorhynchus [platypus] by [Richard Owen] |
| Date | [1832] |
| Description | Plate 16, figures 1-2 showing the sexual organs of the Ornithorhynchus [platypus] prepared for impregnation, as well as a mammary gland. Inscribed with publication and plate details. A pencil inscription bottom right reads 'Jas [James] Basire sc.' A faint pencil inscription above reads 'Owen'. Not signed. Watermarked '[...]tman [...]1'.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the mammary glands of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Richard Owen.
Read to the Royal Society on 21 June 1832. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on paper |
| Dimensions | 339x237mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1832.0023 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0076 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/20/8i |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8083 | Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892); comparative anatomist and palaeontologist | 1804 - 1892 |