Ovaries of a pig Finish:Stretched Effect produced by the explosion

Effect produced by the explosion of tin wire positioned over a sheet of paper or glass when subjected to a high voltage electrical current

The figure is from 'An account of the cause of the change of the variation of the magnetical needle with an hypothesis of the structure of the internal parts of the Earthà'

Masetti won the Rome Grand Prix in 1925

St Helen's Priory

Ovaries of a pig Finish:Stretched Effect produced by the explosionPlate 8 from the paper 'On the corpora lutea', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 109 (1819), pp. 59 69. Internal and external views of pigs' ovaries at different ages and stages of development. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Royal Society stamp verso. Original: watercolour on paper. 1818