Red fir tree seed and moth
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
Studies of sectioned seeds with an insect infestation. The plate shows two halves of a seed bearing the burrowing mark of a grub (figures a and b), the pupal and caterpillar stages of its development (figures e and f) with magnified details of the seed (figures c and d) and insect under magnification and at natural size (figures g and h).
Plate 65 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.LXV.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXIV. & LXV. La Graine du Sapin-rouge & la Chenille, qui la détruit, avec sa Métamorphose en Tigne.’ [The seed of the red fir & the caterpillar, which destroys it, metamorphosising into a moth].
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 65 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.LXV.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXIV. & LXV. La Graine du Sapin-rouge & la Chenille, qui la détruit, avec sa Métamorphose en Tigne.’ [The seed of the red fir & the caterpillar, which destroys it, metamorphosising into a moth].
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