Hen's egg and dissected embryo mb-code DCA_110210 'The Rival Candidates'

'The Rival Candidates'

showing horse drawn carriages

with a stream running past them in the foreground

The Spaniards Inn

Plan of Hyde Park

Hen's egg and dissected embryo mb-code DCA_110210 'The Rival Candidates'Plate 38 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 egg at fourteen days' development with the embryo opened to show the principal blood vessels and their connection to the yolk sac. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Original: watercolour on board. 1822