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Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs

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Date

1816

Artist

Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Plate 18 figures 1-11 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. Eleven views and details of legs from the Bluebottle (Musca vomitoria) and Fever-fly (Bibio febrilis) at x100 and x6,400 magnification. The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details the latter repeated. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer". Royal Society stamp verso, with an inscription in ink: "Fig. 1, and fig.8 magnified 100 times. Figs. 2,3,4,5,6,7 and 9,10,11 magnified 6,400 times".

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Location

British Isles

Tags

Insects

Category

Glossary
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