Hen's egg and dissected embryo mb-code DCA_110210 Entrance to Oxford Street at

Entrance to Oxford Street at the Tyburn Turnpike

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

' Figure 2 captioned: 'Strange & large Batts on I

In the background there is a pawn shop and the Crown Tavern

Hen's egg and dissected embryo mb-code DCA_110210 Entrance to Oxford Street atPlate 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