Leeuwenhoek with his microscope. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

  • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
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Leeuwenhoek with his microscope. Oil painting by Ernest Board. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 92 x 61 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/17/17

References note

Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum organised by Henry S. Wellcome, London 1913, p. 23, no. 60 ("Leuwenhoeck with his microscope. - [Ernest Board]. He described minute living organisms and laid the foundations of the science of bacteriology")

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in “Unimaginable. How Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope changed the world” at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden, 18 April 2023 - 7 January 2024

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Wellcome Collection 45899i

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