Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10342
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‘Argentum’ (silver)
Date
1752
Creator
After
J F Kiefhaber, Artist
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X23/5
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Content object
Description
An illustration of crude argentum (silver), marcasite, copper, and quartz.
This sample was excavated in Schemnitz, Hungary.
Plate 1 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed, ‘Tabula I. J. F. Kiefhaber ad viv. del. J. M. Seligmann sculps et excud.’
This sample was excavated in Schemnitz, Hungary.
Plate 1 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed, ‘Tabula I. J. F. Kiefhaber ad viv. del. J. M. Seligmann sculps et excud.’
Associated place