Microscopic views of a fly Size:S: 45 x 30cm with fan-club secretary Anne Collingham

with fan-club secretary Anne Collingham helping him sort through the 52 sacks full of greeting cards and parcels

The scene shows workmen processing the plant and this is surmounted by a decorative border with hemp plants Cannabis sativa

stamen and other structures of a banana plant belonging to the banker and Dutch East India Company director George Clifford (1685-1760)

Crypt of St Mary-le-Bow

eventually visiting London in the 1820s

Microscopic views of a fly Size:S: 45 x 30cm with fan-club secretary Anne CollinghamIllustrations showing microscopic views of: the foot of a fly (Figs. 1 and 2); the windows of Hooke's room, reflected in the hemispheres of a fly's eye (Fig. 3); part of a fly's wing (Fig. 4). Schem. XXIII 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