Mauritius ebony wood and boxwood Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm View of Blue Boar Inn

View of Blue Boar Inn yard

or 'Experiment Island' off the west coast of Sumatra

Found in the collection of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

shows Kenwood House in the distance

Mauritius ebony wood and boxwood Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm View of Blue Boar InnIllustrations 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