Animal hair
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
Description
Microscopic study of various animal and insect hair, including: the hair of a lion (a), bear (b), caterpillar (c, d) and mole (e). With a detail showing the same at natural size, centre right (as viewed).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XVII.’
Inscribed bellow: ‘Lederm: del: Winters: sculp et exc:’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘du Poil d’Animaux & d’Insectes’ [‘Animal and insect hair’], and written in the accompanying text: ‘Peut etre aves vous cru jusqu'ici que les lions & les Ours avoient quelque chose de singulier dans leur poil; mais vous verres par leur peinture fidele, qu'il differe bien peu du notre’ [‘You may have believed until now that lions & bears had something unusual about their hair; but you can see by this faithful painting, that it differs very little from ours’].
Plate 17 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: XVII.’
Inscribed bellow: ‘Lederm: del: Winters: sculp et exc:’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘du Poil d’Animaux & d’Insectes’ [‘Animal and insect hair’], and written in the accompanying text: ‘Peut etre aves vous cru jusqu'ici que les lions & les Ours avoient quelque chose de singulier dans leur poil; mais vous verres par leur peinture fidele, qu'il differe bien peu du notre’ [‘You may have believed until now that lions & bears had something unusual about their hair; but you can see by this faithful painting, that it differs very little from ours’].
Plate 17 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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