Human uterus Finish:Stretched Bavaria [Upper Franconia]

Bavaria [Upper Franconia]

South west view of St Paul's School

Lombard St London

Zoological study of a moose [North America] or Eurasian elk [Europe] (Alces alces) Shown in a partly wooded landscape

Richard Shaw

Human uterus Finish:Stretched Bavaria [Upper Franconia]Plate 8 from the paper 'On the passage of the ovum from the ovaria to the uterus in women' by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 252 261. The painting is taken from the body of an anonymous 21 year old servant maid who died on 15 January 1817, according to Clift, in a very early stage of pregnancy. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del:'. Royal