Hen's egg and dissected embryo mb-artistname E Duncan Interior of Westminster Abbey

Interior of Westminster Abbey

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she is knitting a blue-stocking

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Hen's egg and dissected embryo mb-artistname E Duncan Interior of Westminster AbbeyPlate 39 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 eighteen days' development with the egg opened to show the embryo in situ: and the embryo dissected to show the yolk being drawn into the body. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' Original: watercolour on board. 1822