| Reference number | PT/73/9/42 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, hen's egg and dissected embryo by Franz [Andreas] Bauer |
| Date | [1822] |
| Description | Plate 39 containing three figures showing the egg at eighteen days' development with the egg opened to show the embryo in situ and the embryo dissected to show the yolk being drawn into the body. With publication and plate details inscribed. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Zoology / Physiology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Observations on the changes the egg undergoes during incubation in the common fowl, illustrated by microscopical drawings' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 16 May 1822. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| Physical description | Watercolour on artists' board |
| Dimensions | 255x179mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0187 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1822.0026 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8749 |
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 |