| RefNo | PT/73/5/23 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, Abyssinian cricket legs by Franz [Andreas] Bauer |
| Date | [1816] |
| Description | Plate 21, figures 1-6 showing six views and details of legs from an unspecified variety of cricket from Abyssinia [Ethiopia] ('Gryllus') at x9 and x100 magnification. The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details, the latter repeated. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso with an inscription in ink 'Fig: 1. magnified 9 times. Figs: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 100 times.'
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 27 June 1816. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on artists' paper |
| Dimensions | 238x154mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0044 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0024 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/10/23 |
| URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8636 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7476 | Bauer; Franz Andreas (1758 - 1840) | 1758 - 1840 |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |