Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11806

    Structure of sponge

    Date
    1764
    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
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Study of the interlaced structure of marine sponge viewed by microscope, under magnification. The figure has an inset detail at natural size.

    Plate 10 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, 1764).

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB.X.’ Inscribed below: ’A.W.W. exc.Nor.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table X. Un petit Brin d’Eponge.’

    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.
    Associated place
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