Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18144

    Pear leaf structure

    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
       > plant
    Description
    Study of the structure of an Autumnal pear leaf viewed by microscope, under magnification. With a circled inset detail showing the whole leaf.

    Plate 42 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.XLII.’

    The accompanying text is headed ‘Table XLII. Un peu de la Carcasse d’une Feuille de Poirier.’ [A piece of dead pear leaf].

    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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