Apricot
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 an apricot at natural size (a), and magnified (b), with details of the hair from its surface (c).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXX.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Une esquisse d'un abricot frais’ [‘A sketch of a fresh apricot’].
The author writes: ‘Sa peau tendre & velue me fit naitre l'envie de l'examiner d'abord par la loupe, surquoi je remarquai que ce fruit delicat etoit revetu d'une fourrure d'un poil argentin tres fin b. […]’ [‘Her tender & hairy skin made me want to examine her first through the magnifying glass, which is why I noticed that this delicate fruit was covered with a fur of a very fine silvery hair b. […]’].
Plate 30 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: XXX.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Une esquisse d'un abricot frais’ [‘A sketch of a fresh apricot’].
The author writes: ‘Sa peau tendre & velue me fit naitre l'envie de l'examiner d'abord par la loupe, surquoi je remarquai que ce fruit delicat etoit revetu d'une fourrure d'un poil argentin tres fin b. […]’ [‘Her tender & hairy skin made me want to examine her first through the magnifying glass, which is why I noticed that this delicate fruit was covered with a fur of a very fine silvery hair b. […]’].
Plate 30 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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