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

Elizabeth II

View of Blue Boar Inn yard

or 'Experiment Island' off the west coast of Sumatra

Found in the collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

' Field Marshall Sir John Fox Burgoyne

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