Microscopic views of Kettering-stone, seaweed and sponge Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm one containing a solitary bird

one containing a solitary bird

angled slightly to the sitter's left

Spottiswoode is painted at half-length turned and looking towards his right in an upright posture

Ramsden wears a black jacket trimmed with grey fur at the collar over a white shirt and black knee-breeches

De Hanovre) le 2 Fevriere 1767'

Microscopic views of Kettering-stone, seaweed and sponge Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm one containing a solitary birdIllustrations showing microscopic views of: stone quarried in Kettering, Northamptonshire (Fig. 1); the fibres in a piece of sponge (Fig. 2); a piece of seaweed (Fig. 3). Schem. IX 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