Insect and larch sprig
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 an insect found in a pine seed at the pupal and adult stages of development, shown under magnification and at natural size. With a botanical study of a larch branch with cones, presumably the European larch (Larix decidua).
Plate 68 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.LXVIII.’. Inscribed below: ‘M. F. Lederm. del. A. W. Winterschmidt excud.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXVIII. L’Insecte qui se trouve dans la graine du Pin, & un Rameau de Mélése’. [the insect in the pine nut and a twig of larch]. The author notes that; ‘J’ai promis dans l’Explication de la 66me Estampe de réprésenter aussi le Ver que j’ai trouvé dans la Graine du Pin & sa Métamorphose en Moucheron’ [I promised in the explanation of the 66th plate to also show the worm that I found in the pine-nut & its metamorphosis into a gnat].
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 68 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.LXVIII.’. Inscribed below: ‘M. F. Lederm. del. A. W. Winterschmidt excud.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXVIII. L’Insecte qui se trouve dans la graine du Pin, & un Rameau de Mélése’. [the insect in the pine nut and a twig of larch]. The author notes that; ‘J’ai promis dans l’Explication de la 66me Estampe de réprésenter aussi le Ver que j’ai trouvé dans la Graine du Pin & sa Métamorphose en Moucheron’ [I promised in the explanation of the 66th plate to also show the worm that I found in the pine-nut & its metamorphosis into a gnat].
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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