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")

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

Wellcome Collection 45899i