RefNo | PT/73/6/19 |
Level | Item |
Title | Drawings, gullets of the Java swallow, common swallow, and blackbird by Franz [Andreas] Bauer |
Date | [1817] |
Description | Plate 16 from Everard Home's paper relaying observations by Sir Stamford Raffles on the edible-nest switlet [Aerodramus fuciphagus]. Bauer's nine figures are gullet details of these and other birds under magnification. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' and lower right 'Is. [Isaac] Basire sc.' Magnifications are given in pencil around the edge of the plate. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Some account of the nests of the Java swallow, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 26 June 1817. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Drawing |
PhysicalDescription | Graphite on paper |
Dimensions | 266x211mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0069 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1817.0026 |
RelatedRecord | PT/11/25 |
URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8657 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7476 | Bauer; Franz Andreas (1758 - 1840) | 1758 - 1840 |
NA7464 | Raffles; Sir; Thomas Stamford Bingley (1781 - 1826) | 1781 - 1826 |
NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |