Fly head
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 a fly’s head from above, showing its ‘collier’ [‘collar’], or thorax (a), anista (b), compound eyes (c), proboscis (d), antenna (e) and more.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXXVII.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘La tete entiere de la mouche par derriere, avec le collier’ [‘The fly’s head from behind, with the collar’].
The author provides a physical description: ‘Vous voyes dans a. le collier blanc avec ses taches brun clair. Sur la Tete b. ou j'ai menage les deux yeux c. avec leur bordure, est la trompe ou langue d. un peu relevee & les deux antenes e.; posees sur les deux coussins dont l'usage m'est inconnu, mais qui peuvent se dilater ou condenser par le moyen de l'air’ [‘You see in a. the white collar with its light brown spots. On the head b. are both the eyes c. with their border, also the proboscis or tongue d. slightly raised at both antennae; placed on two cushions, the use of which is unknown to me, but which can expand or condense with air’].
Plate 37 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: XXXVII.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘La tete entiere de la mouche par derriere, avec le collier’ [‘The fly’s head from behind, with the collar’].
The author provides a physical description: ‘Vous voyes dans a. le collier blanc avec ses taches brun clair. Sur la Tete b. ou j'ai menage les deux yeux c. avec leur bordure, est la trompe ou langue d. un peu relevee & les deux antenes e.; posees sur les deux coussins dont l'usage m'est inconnu, mais qui peuvent se dilater ou condenser par le moyen de l'air’ [‘You see in a. the white collar with its light brown spots. On the head b. are both the eyes c. with their border, also the proboscis or tongue d. slightly raised at both antennae; placed on two cushions, the use of which is unknown to me, but which can expand or condense with air’].
Plate 37 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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