Microscopic views of a fly Size:S: 45 x 30cm with fan-club secretary Anne Collingham

with fan-club secretary Anne Collingham helping him sort through the 52 sacks full of greeting cards and parcels

stamen and other structures of a banana plant belonging to the banker and Dutch East India Company director George Clifford (1685-1760)

Children on a horse drawn sleigh

The scene shows workmen processing the plant and this is surmounted by a decorative border with hemp plants Cannabis sativa

On October 19th 1923 the house opened to visitors and on the first day there were 20

Microscopic views of a fly Size:S: 45 x 30cm with fan-club secretary Anne CollinghamIllustrations showing microscopic views of: the foot of a fly (Figs. 1 and 2); the windows of Hooke's room, reflected in the hemispheres of a fly's eye (Fig. 3); part of a fly's wing (Fig. 4). Schem. XXIII from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke (London, 1665). Original: copperplate engraving. 1665