Microscopic views of a snail's teeth, silk-worm's egg and vinegar eels mb-artistname IR Smith 'Lady in Elizabethan Dress'

'Lady in Elizabethan Dress'

scene showing a sweep and an errand boy or street seller fighting in a fashionable street outside print shop

The cartoon relates to the postponement by Kay of the Lord Mayor's show for fear of anti-Wellington riots

XIII' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755

Microscopic views of a snail's teeth, silk-worm's egg and vinegar eels mb-artistname IR Smith 'Lady in Elizabethan Dress'Illustrations showing microscopic views of: a snail's teeth (Fig. 1); a silk worm's egg (Fig. 2); vinegar eels (Fig. 3). Schem. XXV 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