| Reference number | PT/73/6/15 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, Helix janthina [marine snail] by Franz [Andreas] Bauer |
| Date | [1817] |
| Description | Plate 13 showing seven figures including details of the shell of the Helix janthina [Janthina janthina, or marine snail] with magnified images of ova and internal chambers. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer. del.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Observations on the genus of Ocythoë Rafinesque, with a description of a new species' by William Elford Leach.
Read to the Royal Society on 5 June 1817. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| Physical description | Watercolour on artists' board |
| Dimensions | 253x178mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0066 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1817.0023 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/11/22 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8653 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7476 | Bauer; Franz Andreas (1758 - 1840) | 1758 - 1840 |
| NA7442 | Leach; William Elford (1790 - 1836) | 1790 - 1836 |