Record

Reference numberPT/73/5/22
LevelItem
TitlePaintings, great diving beetle legs by Franz [Andreas] Bauer
Date[1816]
DescriptionPlate 20, figures 1-16 showing sixteen views and details of legs from a male specimen of the great diving beetle [Dytiscus marginalis] at x25, x100, x400, x900, and x40,000 magnification. The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details, the latter repeated. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso.

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.
Extent1p
FormatWatercolour
Physical descriptionWatercolour on artists' board
Dimensions237x153mm
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0044
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0024
Related records in the cataloguePT/10/23
URL descriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8635
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7476Bauer; Franz Andreas (1758 - 1840)1758 - 1840
NA4668Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon1756 - 1832
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