Mauritius ebony wood and boxwood Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II

View of Blue Boar Inn yard

The plate is inscribed: 'The Titmouse of Paradise

' Field Marshall Sir John Fox Burgoyne

shows Kenwood House in the distance

Mauritius ebony wood and boxwood Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Elizabeth IIIllustrations accompanying a letter describing Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations, dated 12 January 1680. An English extract of the letter was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 13 (1683), pp. 197 208. The figures show: fibres in a section of ebony cut crosswise (no. 6, fig. 1) and lengthwise (no. 6, figs. 2 and 3); fibres in a section of boxwood cut crosswise (no. 7, fig. 1) and lengthwise (no. 7, fig. 2); a