Chicken embryo Product:Framed picture horse hair (C and D)

horse hair (C and D)

In Britain in the 1890s

London from the south side of the River Thames

At left a chimney sweep empties soot on the crowd

wrist and fingers are annotated

Chicken embryo Product:Framed picture horse hair (C and D)Plate 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