Woodlouse
Date
1768
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
width (print): 195mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of a woodlouse, as viewed by microscope from above and below, with details of it at natural size (above), and an interior view of its stomach, having been ‘crushed between the two glasses of the specimen folder’, showing eggs and an internal organ that the author identifies as the heart or stomach (below).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: IX.’
Inscribed below: ‘M. F. Ledermuller delin. A. W. Winterschmidt sculps et exc’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Le fidele dessein du pou de l’arbre’ [‘The faithful design of the tree louse’].
Plate 9 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, 1768).
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.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: IX.’
Inscribed below: ‘M. F. Ledermuller delin. A. W. Winterschmidt sculps et exc’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Le fidele dessein du pou de l’arbre’ [‘The faithful design of the tree louse’].
Plate 9 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, 1768).
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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