Human uterus mb-code 2491329 now Oxford Circus

now Oxford Circus

seated and looking to the viewer's left

HOFMANN PH

She has matching flowers in her hair

In the background a figure shovels snow from a rooftop onto a man's head causing him to lose his umbrella

Human uterus mb-code 2491329 now Oxford CircusPlate 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