Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18176

    Hake scale

    Date
    1766
    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
          > fish
    Description
    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.
    Associated place
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