Microscopic views of muscle fibres and red blood cells of fish Size:S: 36 x 28cm Interior view of All Hallows

Interior view of All Hallows Barking (by the Tower)

'The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp'

Newgate Prison and Fleet Prison

Against the pedestal leans a portfolio which says 'Lady C

and King Frederick William III

Microscopic views of muscle fibres and red blood cells of fish Size:S: 36 x 28cm Interior view of All HallowsEngraved plate showing illustrations accompanying a letter describing Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations, dated March 1682. The plate was printed with an English extract of the letter in Philosophical Collections ed. Robert Hooke (London, 1682) no. 5, pp. 152 160. The illustrations show: microscopic view of muscle fibres (figs. 1 and 2); micro organisms (fig. 3); the muscle fibres of a cod (fig. 4); the nucleus in erythrocytes (red