Microscopic views of Kettering-stone, seaweed and sponge Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm 1771 (1772)

1771 (1772)

one containing a solitary bird

1225x1000mm

Spottiswoode is painted at half-length turned and looking towards his right in an upright posture

Microscopic views of Kettering-stone, seaweed and sponge Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm 1771 (1772)Illustrations showing microscopic views of: stone quarried in Kettering, Northamptonshire (Fig. 1); the fibres in a piece of sponge (Fig. 2); a piece of seaweed (Fig. 3). Schem. IX from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke (London, 1665). Original: copperplate engraving. 1665