Cork
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
width (print): 195mm
Subject
Description
Study of a piece of cork in section, viewed by microscope, under magnification. With a circled inset detail showing the cork at normal size, to give scale.
Plate 27 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.XXVII.’ Inscribed below: ‘M.F.L. del. A.W.W. excud:’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table XXVII. Un petit Morceau de Liége’. The author commences the associated text: ‘Mon dessein n’est pas de donner ici une Description du Liége, qui est assé connu sous les divers Noms, qui lui donne le Latin, P.E. Suber, Latifolium perpetuo virens, Phello, sive Suber Hispanica’. [My purpose is not to give a description of the cork, which is known by the various names, given in the Latin…]
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.
Plate 27 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.XXVII.’ Inscribed below: ‘M.F.L. del. A.W.W. excud:’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table XXVII. Un petit Morceau de Liége’. The author commences the associated text: ‘Mon dessein n’est pas de donner ici une Description du Liége, qui est assé connu sous les divers Noms, qui lui donne le Latin, P.E. Suber, Latifolium perpetuo virens, Phello, sive Suber Hispanica’. [My purpose is not to give a description of the cork, which is known by the various names, given in the Latin…]
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.
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