Caption
How to work with the microscope, book, writer (clerical worker): Lionel Smith Beale, publisher: Lindsay and Blakiston, Philadelphia, 1870, writer (clerical worker), North America, textile materials, pasteboard, paper, linen (material), albumen print, wood engraving, printing, lithography, height 228 mm x width 147 mm x thickness 51 mm, A vertically oriented sheet with a rectangular border contains a grid of circular and oval vignetted scientific illustrations arranged in columns and rows, each showing detailed monochrome drawings of small organisms, microscopic structures, and geometric patterns; the top row includes round illustrations of a clustered cellular texture, a mite-like organism with legs, and a scattering of small circular cells; the second row shows an oval crab-like creature, a textured circular disk with a central hole, and an elongated insect-like specimen inside an oval; the third row displays a feathery radial structure in an oval, a densely patterned circular disk with a stippled surface, and three elongated blade-like shapes of varying sizes; the bottom row features an oval image of a segmented flea-like creature with legs and antennae on the left, a narrow rectangular close-up of a patterned surface in the center, and another oval showing a similar segmented insect and a small circular seal-like illustration on the right; faint small numbered labels appear near several illustrations; the page background is aged and yellowed with scattered brown spots and smudges, and a block of explanatory text is visible beneath the illustrations but not described in detail.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A98_469
License type
Rights managed
Available size
35.7Mb (5.0Mb) / 9.0in x 15.5in / 2693 x 4635 (300dpi)