Freshwater snail
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
Description
Studies of a freshwater snail, possibly a variety of Ram’s horn, under magnification. Figure b) shows the shell only, with figure c) the mollusc in place. Figure a) is the creature at actual size.
Plate 74 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.LXXIV.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXXIV. Petit escargot de Limon; ou une Corne d’Ammon’. [small pond silt snail; or horn of Ammon, e.g. ammonite].
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 74 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.LXXIV.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXXIV. Petit escargot de Limon; ou une Corne d’Ammon’. [small pond silt snail; or horn of Ammon, e.g. ammonite].
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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