Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19949

    Chrysalis

    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
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Biology
       > Entomology
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    Description
    Microscopic studies of the breakdown of a caterpillar in a chrysalis during metamorphosis.

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXVII.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Une des plus belles Chenilles, sa metamorphose & quelques parties de son papillon’ [‘A beautiful caterpillar, its metamorphosis and parts of its butterfly’].

    The author writes: ‘En examinant par la loupe la chrysalide b. c. je decouvris deja plusieurs objets remarquables. Sa tete se presenta d'abord a moi entierement composee de vaisseaux a humeurs de couleur rouge brun f. […]’ [‘By examining the chrysalis b. c. through a magnifying glass, I discovered several remarkable objects. Its head first presented itself to me, entirely composed of red-brown humour vessels f. […]’

    Plate 27 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.
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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