Dissection table
Date
1768
Creator
Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt (1733 - 1796, German) , Engraver
After
Martin Frobene Ledermuller (1719 - 1769, German) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
48660
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 195mm
width (print): 195mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of a stage plate for the dissection of frogs, designed by Johann Lieberkühn, with hooks for stretching the specimen, and a tripod stand. A plaque identifies the maker as ‘Johan George Mittsdorfer de Berlin’.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXIII.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘La celebre machine anatomique microscopique de l'invention de l'immortel Mr. le. D. Lieberkuhn de Berlin’ [‘The famous microscopic anatomical machine, invented by the immortal Mr. le. D. Lieberkuhn from Berlin’].
Plate 23 from Amusement microscopique, tant pour l'esprit que pour les yeux, contenant... estampes... d'apres nature...by Martin Frobene Ledermuller, plates volume (Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nuremburg, 1768).
Martin Frobene [Frobenius] Ledermuller (1719-1769) German naturalist was employed in various capacities as a notary, turning to microscope studies after an illness induced temporary deafness.
Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn (1711-1756), German physician, designed the original form of this dissecting table.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXIII.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘La celebre machine anatomique microscopique de l'invention de l'immortel Mr. le. D. Lieberkuhn de Berlin’ [‘The famous microscopic anatomical machine, invented by the immortal Mr. le. D. Lieberkuhn from Berlin’].
Plate 23 from Amusement microscopique, tant pour l'esprit que pour les yeux, contenant... estampes... d'apres nature...by Martin Frobene Ledermuller, plates volume (Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nuremburg, 1768).
Martin Frobene [Frobenius] Ledermuller (1719-1769) German naturalist was employed in various capacities as a notary, turning to microscope studies after an illness induced temporary deafness.
Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn (1711-1756), German physician, designed the original form of this dissecting table.
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