Bedbug
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 (page): 245mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of a juvenile bedbug, viewed by microscope, under magnification. With two structural details at different magnifications and a circled inset figure of the wing at actual size.
Plate 63 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.LXIII.’ Inscribed below: ‘M.F.Lederm. del. A.W.W. excud.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXIII. Une Punaise qui ne fait que d’éclore.’ [a just hatched bedbug]. In the accompanying text, the author apologises for revisiting the subject of plate 52, but explains that: ‘Ce Dessein-ci est fait d’après une Punaise, qui n’etoit éclose que 3 heures auparavant.’ [This drawing was made after the bedbug had hatched just three hours before].
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 63 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.LXIII.’ Inscribed below: ‘M.F.Lederm. del. A.W.W. excud.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXIII. Une Punaise qui ne fait que d’éclore.’ [a just hatched bedbug]. In the accompanying text, the author apologises for revisiting the subject of plate 52, but explains that: ‘Ce Dessein-ci est fait d’après une Punaise, qui n’etoit éclose que 3 heures auparavant.’ [This drawing was made after the bedbug had hatched just three hours before].
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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