Mauritius ebony wood and boxwood Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm View of a small boat

View of a small boat passing underneath Vauxhall Bridge

shows Kenwood House in the distance

Found in the collection of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

' Field Marshall Sir John Fox Burgoyne

deaf and lame

Mauritius ebony wood and boxwood Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm View of a small boatIllustrations accompanying a letter describing Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations, dated 12 January 1680. An English extract of the letter was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 13 (1683), pp. 197 208. The figures show: fibres in a section of ebony cut crosswise (no. 6, fig. 1) and lengthwise (no. 6, figs. 2 and 3); fibres in a section of boxwood cut crosswise (no. 7, fig. 1) and lengthwise (no. 7, fig. 2); a