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Date

1816

Artist

Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Plate 21 figures 7-9 from the paper "Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.106 (1816), pp.322-330. Three leg details from a specimen of British grasshopper (Acrydium biguttulum). The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details, the latter repeated and figure numbers amended. Pencil inscription below: "Small Common Grasshopper of the Garden" [?] and in ink "magnified 2500 times". Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.

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British Isles