Culpeper microscope with pasteboard body tube and black shagreen support
- Made:
- 1730-1750
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Culpeper microscope with pasteboard body tube and black shagreen support, on flat round base, English, circa 1740
Details
- Category:
- Microscopy (Wellcome)
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A604151
- Materials:
- body tube, lignum vitae, eyepiece mounting, body tube, pasteboard, body tube, vellum, green, covered and body tube, brass, nose
- Measurements:
-
overall: height 374 mm
body tube: diameter 64 mm
- type:
- culpeper microscopes
- credit:
- Pratt, M.
