Hen's egg and dissected embryo Product:Postcard Jacques Laffite at the wheel

Jacques Laffite at the wheel of a Ligier-Cosworth

Owen Clancy

with horses feeding from a trough at right

showing houses

Hen's egg and dissected embryo Product:Postcard Jacques Laffite at the wheelPlate 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