Hake scale
1766
Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt (1733 - 1796, German) , Engraver
Martin Frobene Ledermuller (1719 - 1769, German) , Naturalist
48660
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 195mm
width (print): 195mm
Study of a fish scale, from a hake (Phycidae) viewed by microscope, under magnification. With a circled inset detail showing the scale at natural size.
Plate 59 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, 1766).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB.LIX.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LIX. Une petite Ecaille de Merluche’ [a small scale of a hake].
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 59 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, 1766).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB.LIX.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LIX. Une petite Ecaille de Merluche’ [a small scale of a hake].
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.