| Reference number | PT/73/7/17 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [platypus] by Franz [Andreas] Bauer |
| Date | [1819] |
| Description | Plate 18 containing nine figures of magnified and sectioned ovaries and yolk bags of the platypus [Ornithorhynchus anatinus] at different ages. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the ova of the different tribes of opossum and orinthorhynchus' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 25 March 1819. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| Physical description | Ink wash on paper |
| Dimensions | 268x182mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0111 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0018 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/13/18 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8678 |
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 |