Culpeper-type compound microscope
Date1730-1747
Inventory Number1242
ClassificationMicroscope
Subject
Maker
Matthew Loft
fl. 1724 - 1747
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensions42 x 17 x 16.5 cm (16 9/16 x 6 11/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
case: 49 x 22 x 22 cm (19 5/16 x 8 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
blue board box case: 49.8 × 24.4 × 25.1 cm (19 5/8 × 9 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
blue board box microscope: 42.5 × 24.8 × 22.9 cm (16 3/4 × 9 3/4 × 9 in.)
case: 49 x 22 x 22 cm (19 5/16 x 8 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
blue board box case: 49.8 × 24.4 × 25.1 cm (19 5/8 × 9 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
blue board box microscope: 42.5 × 24.8 × 22.9 cm (16 3/4 × 9 3/4 × 9 in.)
Material
Accessoriesocular (1); objectives (6); fish plate; substage cone diaphragm; round spring slide holder; stage forceps; bull's eye condenser; wet specimen glass cup; rotating slide speciment holder with black and white disks; small black and white disks as bead on cord; brass spring; spare collar from an ocular; pyramidal box.
DescriptionThe body of this Culpeper-type microscope is made of oak tubes and turned lignum vitae. The draw tube is covered with green vellum, and outer tube with shagreen. The green vellum has gold decorations, which are badly worn, and five rings formed by dotted black ink to aid the user in focusing the microscope.
The body tube is held aloft on a brass ring fixed to the top of three curving brass pillars, which bend around the brass stage and secure it. A bull's eye lens is currently attached to the stage.
The pillars are screwed to the top of an octagonal mahogany chest The substage mirror is fixed to the chest. There is a single drawer in the chest with a ring pull.
Accessories in the drawer include a frog plate with a blued steel spring clip on the underside, and 3 green silk ribbons attached to a brass bar. Also attached is a black cord with a drum-shaped bead that is a tiny black-and-white disk. There are 5 objectives in the drawer, a blackened ivory cone diaphragm, a spring frame to hold slides, a spinning disk with 8 circular apertures for prepared specimens (only 4 still have mica in them) and 2 apertures holding a blackened ivory and an ivory disk. There is also round glass wet-specimen holder, an extra brass ring (which likely once had a spare ocular), and brass spring.
The case is pyramidal. It has a drawer at the bottom, which is empty.
This instrument is identical to CHSI inv. 1181.
The body tube is held aloft on a brass ring fixed to the top of three curving brass pillars, which bend around the brass stage and secure it. A bull's eye lens is currently attached to the stage.
The pillars are screwed to the top of an octagonal mahogany chest The substage mirror is fixed to the chest. There is a single drawer in the chest with a ring pull.
Accessories in the drawer include a frog plate with a blued steel spring clip on the underside, and 3 green silk ribbons attached to a brass bar. Also attached is a black cord with a drum-shaped bead that is a tiny black-and-white disk. There are 5 objectives in the drawer, a blackened ivory cone diaphragm, a spring frame to hold slides, a spinning disk with 8 circular apertures for prepared specimens (only 4 still have mica in them) and 2 apertures holding a blackened ivory and an ivory disk. There is also round glass wet-specimen holder, an extra brass ring (which likely once had a spare ocular), and brass spring.
The case is pyramidal. It has a drawer at the bottom, which is empty.
This instrument is identical to CHSI inv. 1181.
Signedunsigned
Curatorial RemarksMicroscope (in blue board box) housed separately from case (in blue board box). Accessories are housed in a small blue board box inside case. SMS 11/27/2024
ProvenanceDavid Wheatland purchased from Ernst Weil, London, 1959. Donated to CHSI April 12, 1967.
Claude-Siméon Passemant
Date: 1749-1769
Accessories: ocular; objectives (7); bull's eye condenser; Lieberkühn for stage mounting; cone diaphragm; spring frame for slides; frog plate; stage forceps; large and small black and white disks (2); round micrometer slide with fine wire screen; low-power lens; black aperture disk; brass slider for 4 specimens; ivory slides--rectangular (6); ivory slides--circular (2); brass slide with aperture to hold circular ivory slides; boxes (2) of round ivory slides (40 in total).
Object number: 1182
Benjamin Wood
Date: 1820
Accessories: 10 objectives, numbered 1-10 (caps on 1 and 2); 4 objectives with lieberkuhns (one lens missing); 2 oculars; 3 simple lenses in eye cups; diaphragm cone; live box; spring stage; three-wing stage; double-convex lens on rod; simple-lens carrier on an arm; ivory black/white disk; 1 ivory disk with cork; 3 flat glass disks of differing sizes; 1 large glass disk in threaded brass rim; 1 watch glass; 3 large glass, magnifying lenses, one tinted green; 2 small magnifying glasses; stage condensor; fish plate; 2 stage forceps; 1 stage 3-pronged gripper; tweezers; 3 ivory handled knives for preparations; 10 small and 3 medium ivory slides of transparent specimens; 3 ivory slides of opaque specimens; 3 boxwood slides of transparent specimens; 1 brass wet-cell slide with 4 apertures for preparations; 2 cylindrical ivory boxes with mica cover slips and snap rings; wrench; chamois; flat case with sockets for the above; key.
Object number: 1002
Matthew Loft
Date: 1730-1747
Accessories: objective (5); spring slide holder; circular carrier (10 objects); stage forceps; cone diaphragm; ivory slider (2); round glass disc; brass ring; ivory box of covers; frog plate; key for case
Object number: 1181
Harmanus van Deyl
Date: 1807
Accessories: 2 objectives; 2 eye lenses for a fixed field lens; 1 Lieberkühn; frogplate; bull's eye; stage forceps; spring stage; live box; hand lens; 2 tweezers; 2 boxes with 59 specimen slides; glass disk; black disk; "fish" tube with wire; ivory box of mica cover slips; 5 glass slides; 3 lenses; 2 keys.
Object number: 2002-1-0075a
Abraham Ypelaar
Date: circa 1795
Object number: 2002-1-0075b1
Baumann
Date: 1775-1800
Accessories: 6 objectives: 1-6; 1 eyepiece; 1 partial objective; a lieberkuhn in a brass box; 2 wooden sliders; 1 ivory slider; ivory box with cover slips and springs; 2 spring stages (slider holders); cup diaphragm; wheel diaphragm; frog plate; 2 live boxes; tweezers; steel tweezers with pin; magnifying glass; 2 ivory rings; horizontal box.
Object number: 1253
Andrew Pritchard
Date: 1835-1840
Accessories: objectives (4); oculars (6); lieberkühns (4); stage forceps; bull's eye condenser on stand; spring stage; extra mechanical stage; polarizer; cup diaphragms and holders; substage fork mount; live box; glass troughs (2); concave glass; fish tube holder; case; 2 keys. See also slide micrometers (2) (1088b,c)
Object number: 1088a
English
Date: circa 1830
Accessories: 4 objectives; 1 objective fixed to compound body tube; 1 ocular; live box with glass; ivory black / white disk; stage forceps; brush; 3 ivory slides; 1 glass slide; 1 dissecting needle; specimen list; box.
Object number: 1005
English
Date: 1735-1745
Accessories: 5 objectives; 3 ivory slides; 1 brass slide; 2 rough pieces of glass; 2 stage forceps and pins; black / white disk in ebony with ivory inset; spring stage; live box.
Object number: 2002-1-0054
Matthew Loft
Date: 1730-1747
Accessories: 5 Objectives:1, 2, 3, 4, 5; round specimen carrier with eight preparations plus black and white discs; fish plate; stage forceps; live box; ivory box for cover glasses; cone diaphragm; pyramidal case.
Object number: 1180
W. & S. Jones
Date: circa 1795
Accessories: rotating disc with 6 objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; objectives with Lieberkuhn reflectors (2); Lieberkuhn attachment; conical diaphragm, stage forceps with calipers; fish plate; silk ribbon; tweezers; Bonanni spring stage; prepared ivory slides (7), standing case.
Object number: 1041