Chicken embryo Product:Framed picture wrist and fingers are annotated

wrist and fingers are annotated

with a barge passing through a lock

At left a chimney sweep empties soot on the crowd

20th May 1946

horse hair (C and D)

Chicken embryo Product:Framed picture wrist and fingers are annotatedPlate 40 from the paper 'Observations on the changes the egg undergoes during incubation in the common fowl', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 339 356. Three figures showing the embryo within the egg at twenty days' incubation, the chick removed from the egg, and dissected to show the yolk drawn into the body. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' Original: watercolour on board. 1822