Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] Finish:Float frame stands in a cockney garden

stands in a cockney garden

in the sky a hot air balloon passes overhead

'Prison Basket Man'

John Hunter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767

View of the White Horse Inn on Fetter Lane

Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] Finish:Float frame stands in a cockney gardenPlate 18 from the paper 'On the ova of the different tribes of Opossum and Ornithorhynchus', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 109 (1819), pp. 234 240. Nine figures of magnified and sectioned ovaries and yolk bag of the platypus [Ornithorhynchus anatinus] at different ages. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on paper.