Ovaries of a pig Finish:Stretched Holman is painted half face

Holman is painted half face

his hair gathered in a queue

with the company and barges

St Helen's Priory

Effect produced by the explosion of tin wire positioned over a sheet of paper or glass when subjected to a high voltage electrical current

Ovaries of a pig Finish:Stretched Holman is painted half facePlate 8 from the paper 'On the corpora lutea', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 109 (1819), pp. 59 69. Internal and external views of pigs' ovaries at different ages and stages of development. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Royal Society stamp verso. Original: watercolour on paper. 1818