Leeuwenhoek with his microscope. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

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

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

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")

Wellcome Collection 45899i

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