Butterfly proboscis
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
Microscopic study of the ‘double proboscis’ of a butterfly, the two fibres that protrude from the insect’s head as it emerges from the chrysalis, with details of it from various angles.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXVIII.’
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’].
Plate 28 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: XXVIII.’
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’].
Plate 28 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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