Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique print
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1823
- Engraver: n/a
- Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Overall uniform very light age toning of paper.
- Dimensions: 8 x 10.5 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
Notes:
- Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed.
- 1 inch = 2,54 cm.
Legend to the illustrations depicted in the print:
- Animalcules are such animals that their true figure cannot
be discerned without the assistance of glasses; and more especially the
term is applied to such as are altogether invisible to the naked eye. Fig.
1. Hair-like insect, named by Mr. Baker, 2. Multitude of them put into
a jar of water, magnified, 3. In a jar of water, seem possessed of a considerable
degree of sagacity, 4. Eels in paste is viviparous, 5,6. Proteus, when
alarmed, 7. And transforming into a different shape, 8. New form, able
to draw a current of water to it from a considerable distance, 9. With
protruded neck, 10. Disposed of its neck and head, The Wheel Animal or
Vorticella: 23,24. In its globular form, 11,12. In its maggot state, 13-22.
Show the different appearances of its shells, and also its various intermediate
changes between the globular and maggot state, 25. Another type of
animal found in the ditch at Norwich, has very long tails, 26-28. Species
of wheel animals, which are also covered with shells, 29,30, 32-37. Bell
flower animal or Plumed Polype, (29. Complete colony, 30. All creatures
withdrawn into their cells, 33. Shows the bell erect, 34. Head and arms
of a single polyp, 35. Complete animal, greatly magnified, 37. The head
and arms seen in front). 31. A curious aquatic warm, 36. Shown separated
into four parts, 38. Globe animal, 39. Pipe animal, 40. Shows one single
pipe, 41. An insect with net-like arms, magnified about 400 times, 42.
One of the insects, magnified, 43. In the form assumed when weary with
catching their food.
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