Microscopic view of a flea mb-height 5425 or to a Feast

or to a Feast

The device used gravity by suspending a patient (most likely a child) from the balance arms

surrounded by the wreckage of household furniture

a matronly Mrs Britannia looks at a girlish Columbia who sits holding a map representing the torn and divided States of America

but in the style of William Beechey (1753-1839)

Microscopic view of a flea mb-height 5425 or to a FeastIllustration showing a microscopic view of a flea. Schem: XXXIV from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke, 1665. Original: copperplate engraving. 1665