Human uterus Finish:Stretched View of the fire on

View of the fire on 11 April 1758

Sculptural panel in Mincing Lane

Richard Shaw

part of Smithfield Market

Bavaria [Upper Franconia]

Human uterus Finish:Stretched View of the fire onPlate 8 from the paper 'On the passage of the ovum from the ovaria to the uterus in women' by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 252 261. The painting is taken from the body of an anonymous 21 year old servant maid who died on 15 January 1817, according to Clift, in a very early stage of pregnancy. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del:'. Royal