Object Details
- Description
- This papier mache model of a recently fertilized human egg was made the Auzoux factory in Normandy, France. The Smithsonian bought it in 1895, and probably made the round wood base.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Associated Name
- Auzoux, Louis
- maker
- Etablissements du Docteur Auzoux
- date made
- 1895
- Measurements
- overall: 5 3/4 in x 3 in; 14.605 cm x 7.62 cm
- overall: 15 cm x 7.5 cm; 5 7/8 in x 2 15/16 in
- Object Name
- Anatomical Model
- model, anatomical, human egg
- Other Terms
- Models, Embryonic, Batch of; Medicine
