Microscopic views of a fly Size:S: 45 x 30cm Children on a horse drawn

Children on a horse drawn sleigh

From a Picture by Iohn Hoppner Esqr

eventually visiting London in the 1820s

The scene shows workmen processing the plant and this is surmounted by a decorative border with hemp plants Cannabis sativa

Microscopic views of a fly Size:S: 45 x 30cm Children on a horse drawnIllustrations showing microscopic views of: the foot of a fly (Figs. 1 and 2); the windows of Hooke's room, reflected in the hemispheres of a fly's eye (Fig. 3); part of a fly's wing (Fig. 4). Schem. XXIII 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