Spooner's Transformations: The Microscope
A hand-colored lithograph shows an elderly woman in a white bonnet and pink dress peering through a brass microscope on a tripod stand, while a young boy in green and tan watches beside a small bowl. A printed caption strip with two small vignettes sits beneath the scene.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1838
- Medium
- Lithograph and brush and watercolor on paper
- Source
- Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
- Size
- 2635 × 3246 px
Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1843).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum