Hen's egg and dissected embryo mb-code DCA_110210 'The Rival Candidates'

'The Rival Candidates'

By the 18th century the palace with its 15th century Great Hall had fallen into disrepair

he abdicated in 1917 after the Russian Revolution and was murdered by the Bolsheviks the following year

Entrance to Oxford Street at the Tyburn Turnpike

Hen's egg and dissected embryo mb-code DCA_110210 'The Rival Candidates'Plate 38 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 fourteen days' development with the embryo opened to show the principal blood vessels and their connection to the yolk sac. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Original: watercolour on board. 1822