Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10520
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Abraham Trembley in his laboratory with pupils
Date
1744
Creator
Jacobus van der Schley (1715 - 1779, Dutch) , Printmaker
After
Cornelis Pronk (1691 - 1759, Dutch) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
22248
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 72mm
width (print): 126mm
width (print): 126mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Interior view, the naturalist Abraham Trembley showing specimens to his two pupils, the sons of Count Willem Bentinck (1704-1774). The elder of the two boys is shown kneeling on a chair, looking through a glass or microscope. The younger peers into a glass jar in which freshwater hydra are kept and there are rows of such jars behind this grouping, with books and a cabinet. The room was at Zorgvlied near the Hague in the Netherlands.
Vignette from Memoires pour server a l’histoire d’un genre de polypes d’eau douce...by Abraham Trembley (Leiden, 1744), p.229.
The plate is inscribed: “C.Pronck del. ad viv. 1744. J. V. Schley sculp.”
The Swiss natural historian Abraham Trembley (1710-1784) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1743. His book, from which this plate is taken, gives an account of experiments with freshwater hydra, or polyps, seen here being collected.
Vignette from Memoires pour server a l’histoire d’un genre de polypes d’eau douce...by Abraham Trembley (Leiden, 1744), p.229.
The plate is inscribed: “C.Pronck del. ad viv. 1744. J. V. Schley sculp.”
The Swiss natural historian Abraham Trembley (1710-1784) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1743. His book, from which this plate is taken, gives an account of experiments with freshwater hydra, or polyps, seen here being collected.
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