Fly
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 section of a fly’s body, viewed from above, showing where the thorax (a) meets the base of the wings (c, d), and the abdomen (e).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XLI.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘La bas du corps de la mouche, considere par le dos’ [‘The lower body of a fly, viewed from above’].
The author writes: ‘La figure & les couleurs de ces creatures different autant que leurs classes. Swammerdam a ramasse quatorze; Hufnagel Vingt-cinq communes & trente rares; & Gaedart Quarante huit especes de mouches’ [‘The bodies and colours of these creatures differ as much as their species. Swammerdam picked up fourteen; Hufnagel twenty five common and thirty rare; & Gaedart forty eight species of flies’].
Plate 41 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).
Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680), Dutch biologist and microscopist.
Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600), Flemish natural history illustrator and painter.
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: XLI.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘La bas du corps de la mouche, considere par le dos’ [‘The lower body of a fly, viewed from above’].
The author writes: ‘La figure & les couleurs de ces creatures different autant que leurs classes. Swammerdam a ramasse quatorze; Hufnagel Vingt-cinq communes & trente rares; & Gaedart Quarante huit especes de mouches’ [‘The bodies and colours of these creatures differ as much as their species. Swammerdam picked up fourteen; Hufnagel twenty five common and thirty rare; & Gaedart forty eight species of flies’].
Plate 41 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).
Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680), Dutch biologist and microscopist.
Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600), Flemish natural history illustrator and painter.
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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