| Reference number | PT/73/7/10 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, ovaries of a pig by Franz [Andreas] Bauer |
| Date | [1818] |
| Description | Plate 9, figures 3-6 showing external and internal views of a pig's ovaries during and after a sow's pregnancy. The figures were rearranged from the vertical layout in this original plate to horizontal pairings in the published version, with the addition of two other figures. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Anatomy / Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On Corpora Lutea' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 14 January 1819. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| Physical description | Watercolour on artists' paper |
| Dimensions | 263x180mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0101 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0006 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/13/5 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8671 |
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 |