Chicken embryo Product:Framed picture In Britain in the 1890s

In Britain in the 1890s

View of the King's Head Inn yard

looking across the Serpentine towards Hornsey

wrist and fingers are annotated

At left a chimney sweep empties soot on the crowd

Chicken embryo Product:Framed picture In Britain in the 1890sPlate 40 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 embryo within the egg at twenty days' incubation, the chick removed from the egg, and dissected to show the yolk drawn into the body. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' Original: watercolour on board. 1822