Tulip
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
Study of an unknown species of tulip flower, tulipa, showing its pink and cream petals, its reproductive parts, including stamen (a, b) and stigma (d), and its stalk.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XVLVII.’
Inscribed below: ‘A. W. Winterschmidt Sculp. et exc:’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘La tulipe & quelques particularites de sa poussiere’ [‘The tulip & some peculiarities of its dust’].
The author writes in the associated description: ‘En ayant donc recu bonne quantite des plus belles belles, du tems qu'elles etoitent en fleur; je me faifois un passe-tems d'en prendre l'une apres l'autre, & d'en examiner la poussiere, d'abord l'oeil nud, puis avec la lupe & engin par de plus hauts points de grossisement.’ [‘By having thus received a good quantity of the most beautiful, from the time they were in bloom; I have a pastime to take one after the other, and examine the dust, first with the naked eye, then with the glass and the machine by higher points of magnification.’]
Plate 47 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: XVLVII.’
Inscribed below: ‘A. W. Winterschmidt Sculp. et exc:’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘La tulipe & quelques particularites de sa poussiere’ [‘The tulip & some peculiarities of its dust’].
The author writes in the associated description: ‘En ayant donc recu bonne quantite des plus belles belles, du tems qu'elles etoitent en fleur; je me faifois un passe-tems d'en prendre l'une apres l'autre, & d'en examiner la poussiere, d'abord l'oeil nud, puis avec la lupe & engin par de plus hauts points de grossisement.’ [‘By having thus received a good quantity of the most beautiful, from the time they were in bloom; I have a pastime to take one after the other, and examine the dust, first with the naked eye, then with the glass and the machine by higher points of magnification.’]
Plate 47 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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