Ernst Heeger
Insecten-Flügel, Trypeta cometa, Trypeta alternata, Trypeta reticulata

ArtistAustrian, 1783–1866
CultureAustrian
Titles
  • Insecten-Flügel, Trypeta cometa, Trypeta alternata, Trypeta reticulata
  • Insect Wings, Trypeta cometa, Trypeta alternata, Trypeta reticulata
Datec. 1855
MediumSalted paper prints
DimensionsImage (A): 3 3/16 × 7 3/16 in. (8.1 × 18.3 cm)
Image (B): 3 1/8 × 7 1/8 in. (8 × 18.1 cm)
Image (C): 3 11/16 × 7 3/16 in. (9.3 × 18.3 cm)
Mount: 13 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (34.3 × 24.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2020.11
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

These photographs of fruit fly wings seen through a microscope
accompanied a journal article that boasted of the value of photographs as
“purely controlled,” without the errors and influences found in hand-drawn
illustrations. From the very outset, photography was heralded as a tool as
valuable for scientists as it was for artists. Louis Daguerre was reported in
January 1839 to have used a solar microscope to make a daguerreotype of a
spider “finished with such detail . . . that you may study its anatomy . . . as
if it were nature itself,” every fiber and nerve perfectly visible.




Provenance[Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black, top center: INSECTEN - FLÜGEL. // (Mikrotipie.)
Printed in black, recto, below three photographs: Trypeta cometa.
Printed in black, recto, below second photograph: Trypeta alternate.
Printed in black, recto, below third photograph: Trypeta reticulata.
Printed in black, recto, bottom right: Beilage zu M. Auer’s poligr,-illustr. Zeitschrift “Faust”.

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