Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10344
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Crude white silver
Date
1752
Creator
After
J F Kiefhaber, Artist
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X23/5
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 200mm
width (print): 134mm
width (print): 134mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Illustration of crude white sparkling silver ('argentum rude candidum micans').
Containing copper, quartz and pyrite marcasite.
This sample was excavated in Schemnitz, Hungary.
Plate 4 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed, ‘Tabula IV. J. F. Kiefhaber ad viv. delin. J. M. Seligmann sculps et excud.’
Containing copper, quartz and pyrite marcasite.
This sample was excavated in Schemnitz, Hungary.
Plate 4 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed, ‘Tabula IV. J. F. Kiefhaber ad viv. delin. J. M. Seligmann sculps et excud.’
Associated place