| Reference number | PT/73/5/24 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, grasshopper legs by [Franz Andreas Bauer] |
| Date | [1816] |
| Description | Plate 21, figures 7-9 showing three leg details from a specimen of British grasshopper [Acrydium biguttulum]. The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details, the latter repeated and figure numbers amended. Pencil inscription below: 'Small Common Grasshopper of the Garden [?]' and in ink 'magnified 2500 times'. Not signed. 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. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| Physical description | Watercolour on paper |
| Dimensions | 238x154mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0044 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0024 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/10/23 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8637 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7476 | Bauer; Franz Andreas (1758 - 1840) | 1758 - 1840 |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |